Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Transport and Trade Facilitation: An Overview -- Regional Trading Blocs -- Overview -- Transport and Trade Facilitation -- The Components of an Advanced TTF System -- Lessons Learned -- 2. Transport and Trade in the North American Free Trade...

Policy-makers in Southern Africa are increasingly convinced that regional trade liberalization can improve growth performance and stimulate development throughout the region. To succeed where previous attempts have failed, however, governments must address two key issues. The first of these is...

Der Handelsstaat Deutschland ist existentiell auf den Export seiner Industriellen und Ingenieure insbesondere nach Übersee angewiesen, um seinen Wohlstand und seine expandierenden Sozial- und Bildungssysteme aufrechterhalten zu können. Der Band zeichnet die Geschichte der deutschen...

Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the sheer volume of PTAs is striking. In the 1990s there were...