the Inventory research, about policy transparency. What information about use of export restrictions do governments …

place conditions on exporting is on the rise. Transparency can help mitigate the negative effects of export restrictions by … develops a checklist of good practice in transparency which can serve as a tool for self-evaluation by governments and for … promoting better and more consistent transparency practices in this area. The items of the checklist are drawn from norms and …

opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional … discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of … deepen existing multilateral transparency commitments (“WTO-plus”), but expand them to new areas that do not have precedents …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

heightened uncertainty about supply availability together with friction among trading partners. Poor transparency can amplify and … compound the effects of restrictive trade policies. This paper explores the issue of transparency with respect to the use of … available. After explaining how transparency is operationalised in the conduct of trade policy and what its benefits are for …

The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to … improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that … important transparency and responsible sourcing initiatives are reviewed. The initiatives appear to have had some positive …

provide guidance for improving transparency while maintaining trader confidentiality. In addition, we analyze liquidity in the …