This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

Trade liberalisation in Mexico started in a significant way in 1985/86, and was consolidated by the NAFTA agreement … rate of economic growth. In practice, there has been a divorce between rhetoric and reality. The growth of GDP post-liberalisation … has been only one-half that pre-liberalisation. This paper gives three explanations. Firstly, export growth has hardly …

This studyprovides a unique framework for analyzing the role of the GATS and the WTO in the liberalization and …

This studyexamines current efforts to deepen trade commitments regarding energy services. …

leading to trade reforms, and the political economy aspects of reform. …

This book takes a penetrating look at major challenges to the World Trade Organization and the future of trade … liberalization. …

liberalization commitments and was subject to review by the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Committee. In her view, the same mechanism …

that trade liberalization significantly reduces urban concentration. Similarly, openness is insignificant if trade is …In this paper, I reexamine the empirical relationship between trade openness and urban concentration. Using a panel … association between trade openness and the size of a country's largest city are not robust. More importantly, the openness …

liberalization of trade in services, and launch a dialogue on domestic economic policies that can create negative spillover effects …The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is …