The WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is an important agreement that aims to simplify and simplify trade procedures, lower trade costs and increase transparency and predictability in global trade. For Bangladesh, a highly export-dependent developing country, TFA offers significant...

This book examines the extent to which there are trade impediments to the transfer and adoption of environmental goods and services, how can these be addressed by global trade negotiations, the role of complementary measures in order to ensure "win-win" benefits -- that is promoting both...

To what extent are there trade impediments to the transfer and adoption of environmental goods and services? How can these be addressed by global trade negotiations? What is the role of complementary measures in order to ensure "win-win" benefits -- that is promoting both environmental...

Most trade-led growth strategies focus on exports. This article argues that they should not overlook imports for two main reasons. First, imports are an important determinant of export performance. Therefore, the success of an export-led growth strategy will be reduced if it only focuses on...

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R content of trade to TFP growth for North-South trade-related technology diffusion. The measure of foreign R used in the literature on trade-related technology diffusion imposes identical contributions of openness and the R...

This paper determines the impacts of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) for Brazil under alternative assumptions concerning the returns to scale and the nature of competition in several industries, emphasizing the effects on the agribusiness activities. The GTAPinGAMS applied...