This Technical Note provides an assessment of Belize's trade sector and offers some policy options. Major constraints are related to a limited export basket and concentrated destination markets, high tariff levels with high dispersion, conservative trade agenda, weak institutional capacity,...

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

En el presente informe (número especial de la Nota Periódica sobre Integración y Comercio en las Américas) el interés se ha centrado en los desafíos específicos que enfrentan la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, así como en las oportunidades que surgen de tales desafíos....

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting celebrated on december 15th, 2004 in Montego Bay Jamaica. Approaches for managing asymmetries in the WH Mapping out the mechanisms General trends and...

Few regions in the world have seen such an aggressive proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) as the Americas. This decentralised and uncoordinated process is beginning to cause concern as it threatens to undermine efforts to build a hemispheric trading system.

The main purpose of this paper is to measure the contributions of the changes in the labor market to the increase in inequality experienced by Mexico after the 1985 trade and financial liberalization. To do so, the paper uses data from Mexican household surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso...

The growth of regional trading blocs has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Virtually all countries are members of a bloc and many belong to more than one; more than one third of world trade takes place within such agreements. Regional agreements vary...

The objective of the WTO¿s Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative is to help developing countries to build the supply-side capacity and trade related infrastructure needed to implement and benefit from trade liberalization and enhance market access, and more broadly to expand their trade.

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on September 17th and 18th, 2002. Challenges of Trade Diplomacy. Emergency dialogue over Trade Policy.

During the past few decades, the landscape of the world economy has changed. New trade patterns reflect the globalization of the supply chain and intra-industry trade, and increasing flows between neighboring countries and trading blocs with similar factor endowments. Similarly, the approach to...