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Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks : trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2014

This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production networks (IPNs), both globally and in Asia and the Pacific. A global dataset of firm-level data from developing countries was analyzed to identify the main obstacles to...

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Reduced time at customs through implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would be a significant boost to intra-African trade for AfCFTA countries

De Melo, Jaime; Sorgho, Zakaria; Wagner, Laurent - 2023

All WTO members participate in the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a rules-based bottom-up approach built on …

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Proposed Changed to WTO Special and Differential Treatment Provisions: An Analysis from the Perspective of Asian LDCs

Rahman, Mustafizur; Rahman, Kazi Mahmudur - 2006

Special and differential treatment (S&D) provisions introduced in the GATT and the WTO in support of strengthened …

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The Entwining of Trade Policy with Environmental and Labour Standards

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

While environmental and labour issues are not new to the GATT, nor to other trade policy fora, they are likely to have … a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the newly formed World Trade Organization (WTO … becoming more prominent, whether the WTO is an appropriate forum to discuss them, and how they affect developing and other …

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Proposed Changed to WTO Special and Differential Treatment Provisions: An Analysis from the Perspective of Asian LDCs

Rahman, Mustafizur; Rahman, Kazi Mahmudur - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2006

Special and differential treatment (S&D) provisions introduced in the GATT and the WTO in support of strengthened …

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Congressional Decision-Making and the Rise of Delegation: An Application to Trade Policy

Hansen, Wendy L.; Prusa, Thomas J. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1996

current trends in trade policy formation are largely due to the international constraints imposed by GATT. We then show how …

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Argentina

Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005

After decades of being a marginal player in the GATT trade negotiations, Argentina decided to participate actively in …

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Trade and development : systemic lessons from WTO experience with implementation, trade facilitation, and aid for trade

Finger, Joseph M. - In: Developing countries in the WTO legal system, (pp. 75 - 103). 2009

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Why Trade Costs Matter?

De, Prabir - 2006

Trade costs are often cited as an important determinant of the volume of trade. A growing literature has documented the negative impact of trade costs on the volume of trade. Most of these studies show that integration is the resultant of reduced costs of transportation in particular and other...

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The Relationship between Liberalisation in the Logistics Sector and Trade Facilitation

De Sousa, D.; Findlay, C. - 2006

This study demonstrates that the improvement of the performance of logistics services through domestic liberalisation may generate a virtuour cycle, whereby international trade is increased and the this, in turn, may increase the deman for logistics services.

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