Trade is a well-established driver of growth and poverty reduction. Also changes in trade policy have distributional impacts that create winners and losers. It is vital to understand and clearly communicate how trade affects economic well-being across all segments of… Read moreThe Distributional Impacts of Trade : Empirical Innovations, Analytical Tools, and Policy Responses
We are pleased to share our list of selected new acquisitions from August 2018. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org. The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html. For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t forget… Read moreLibrary acquisitions — August 2018
New OECD publications have been uploaded to the OECD iLibrary, a comprehensive digital repository of books, papers, and statistics from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Titles recently added include: Garlic (International Standards for Fruit and Vegetables series)… Read moreNew publications from OECD, early August 2017
We are pleased to send you our list of selected new acquisitions from June 2017. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org. The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html. For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t… Read moreLibrary acquisitions — June 2017
We are pleased to send you our list of selected new acquisitions from June 2016. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org. The list is also available on Library’s website: http://intranet/__resources/library/_en/new_for_you_new_books.html. For continuous updates on the latest trade news, don’t… Read moreLibrary acquisitions — June 2016
Over the past decades, the process of untrammelled trade liberalization has engulfed many parts of the world. Albeit the attenuated success obtained on trade facilitation on global trade in Bali 2013, the global proclivity toward bilateral trade deals remains patent…. Read moreConstitutional Courts as Bulwarks against the Erosion of Social and Economic Rights through Free Trade Agreements
In Africa, the Yamoussoukro Decision (YD) to date remains the single most important air transport reform policy, the continent-wide implementation of which remains pending. This study employs the Air Liberalisation Index (ALI), developed by the Word Trade Organisation (WTO) Secretariat,… Read moreThe Air Liberalisation Index as a tool in measuring the impact of South Africa’s aviation policy in Africa on air passenger traffic flows
Policies regulating the international grain trade in Southern Africa (SA) are motivated by uncertainty regarding private sector performance and, in turn, private sector performance is generally constrained by the policy environment. We study spatial price transmission between SA maize markets… Read moreSpatial equilibrium and price transmission between Southern African maize markets connected by informal trade
Abstract: This paper investigates the trade competitiveness of the new emerging Southern economies – China, India, Brazil and South Africa (CIBS) – with respect to their main global partners. Starting from the commonly held view that countries with trade patterns… Read moreThe Trade Competitiveness of Southern Emerging Economies: A Multidimensional Approach Through Cluster Analysis / Pierluigi Montalbano and Silvia Nenci
The link between ICT use and trade flows has been widely discussed in the literature. It has been argued that the use of ICT contributes to the fall of trade costs. The analysis presented identifies the role of a specific… Read moreImpact of ICT on trade in different technology groups: analysis and implications / Evgeniya Yushkova