In Zimbabwe trade has been a driver of economic growth, rising incomes, and progressive empowerment of Zimbabweans through rising standards of living and the promise of better jobs. Since 1980, through...
This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid-for-trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global...
This book takes a fresh look at export diversification. It concludes that much of the recent literature, though novel, has focused excessively on simply adding new products to export portfolios. One branch...
With the global economy teetering on the abyss of severe recession, political pressures demanding protection from import competition to protect employment are surfacing with increasing intensity around...
While diversification of exports is often a desirable trade objective, it is far from clear how best to tap into new opportunities. This paper discusses the range of avenues of diversification, including...
Aid for trade is a means to help developing countries, especially low-income countries, integrate into the world economy as a way to spur growth. The recent financial crisis and global recession have...
Trade ministries will soon meet in Geneva in an effort to move the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiation towards conclusion. The negotiations have been under way for almost seven years. In the areas...
Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic partnership...
This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through "discovery" of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of...
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force, now more than 200, has risen six-fold in just two decades. Today, more than one-third...
This note looks at trade facilitation from a development perspective, and asks three questions: Why is trade facilitation important to the growth of developing country trade? What proposals for new disciplines...
This report builds on the consensus developed at the August 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. It draws on the effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. And it...
During September 10-14, 2003, World Trade Organization members met in Cancun for a mid-term review of the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The November 2001 Doha Ministerial declaration that launched...
Contents: Development news. Toward a pro - poor trade agenda. Trade reform for economic growth and poverty reduction. Mainstreaming trade for poverty alleviation - A Cambodian experience. Farm fallacies...
This report discusses China's fiscal risk, and introduces related international experience and theoretical progress. It includes three main sections: contingent liabilities in a macroeconomic perspective...
Among the many questions that WTO ministers will take up in their September meeting in Cancun, Mexico, is the issue of an international investment agreement. This is one of the four issues under discussion...
The authors investigate the origins of the East Asian crisis and its contagion, examine the channels of contagion, and discuss policy recommendationsThey make detailed recommendations in the context of...
Since 1978 China's economy has produced economic growth rates making it one of the fastest growing economies. In the same period, China's environment has deteriorated significantly. Rapid urbanization...
Since 1978 China's economy has produced economic growth rates making it one of the fastest growing economies. In the same period, China's environment has deteriorated significantly. Rapid urbanization...