The authors discuss options that could be considered in the World Trade Organization (WTO) to provide more favorable treatment-so-called special and differential treatment (SDT)-to small and low-income...
This study aims at providing an overview of policies affecting services trade in seven countries of the Balkan region, and stresses the growing importance of services trade. The service sectors, particularly...
This paper considers the challenges and opportunities facing the Central American countries and explores the choices open to them for fuller integration into the world economy. The paper presents a brief...
A web of trade and payments arrangements binds countries of Eastern and Central Europe under the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) agreements. However, it is incompatible with these countries...
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of the debt problem and the patterns of economic reform and adjustment being pursued by countries in the EMENA region. First, the debt situation in the...
This paper focuses on the measures of protection applied to trade between developed and developing countries. This choice reflects concern with the adverse repercussions of recently imposed protectionist...
This paper demonstrates that multilateral trade liberalization is in the mutual interests of the developed and the developing countries. For one thing, reducing their own protection lessens the economic...