The Concept Paper discusses ways to reinvigorate the WTO as a forum for trade negotiation and trade-related rule-making, dealing with both negotiation and decision-making procedures and possible subject matters. Although it makes several proposals to overcome the current impase of the WTO as a...

Because individual firms are interdependent and rely on each other, either as supplier of intermediate goods or client for their own production, an exogenous financial shock affecting a single firm, such as the termination of a line of credit, reverberates through the productive chain. The...

Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...