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.

Towards a Sustainable and Efficient State: The Development Agenda of Belize represents a tangible expression of the Inter-American Development Bank's commitment to generating knowledge as part of its assistance to its borrowing member countries and illustrates the Bank's willingness to accompany...

This book assesses the impact and design of optimal strategies to implement existing agreements. It deals with issues such as removing the remaining barriers to trade, improving the institutional, regional, and global trade architecture, and promoting convergence and accumulation among the...

Economic development in The Bahamas is closely linked to the country's trade performance, and specifically its services export capacity. Foreign investment, which is mostly directed towards tourism projects and financial services investments, have traditionally helped to stimulate economic...

This document contains country and agreement profiles. Country Profiles in the following pages present an overview of the performance and structure of international trade for each country as well as its multilateral and preferential trade policies. The Agreement Profiles in the following pages...

El BID se aprovechó el Cuarto Foro de alto nivel sobre la eficacia de la ayuda, que se celebró en Busan, Corea, para difundir los resultados de su Iniciativa de Bienes Públicos Regionales. Este documento proporciona información básica acerca de la Iniciativa de RPG, que es el principal...

This document is an input to the IDB country strategy with Belize for the period 2008-2012. This note assesses Belize's trade performance in the past several years, and puts forth policy recommendations for Belize to foster its export projection and competitiveness in global markets. The main...

After posting double digit gains in 2010-2011, Latin America's export growth declined to just 1.5% in 2012 for a total value of slightly more than $1 trillion, according to figures just released by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). These results...