Trade and Environment in the Americas: The effectiveness of the environmental safeguards in CAFTA and in Free Trade Agreements between the United States and Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Panama, depends on adequate implementation and funding of the oversight and enforcement mechanisms and of the...

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

To assess the welfare effects of bilateral versus multilateral trade and/or investment liberalisation in general equilibrium, we set up a three-country and three-factor knowledge-capital model of trade and multinational activity. Numerical simulation results indicate that multilateral...