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Assessment of Diverse International Trade Facilitation Measures: The Case of Jordan and Hong Kong

11 August 2017

of the WTO, of which Jordan belongs. In this research, the WTO TFA and other ...

Socio-economic and Political Structure of Risk in Trade: Cases from Yogyakarta/Indonesia Export-Oriented SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Clusters in Tourism and Handicraft/Furniture Industries

11 August 2017

Despite resiliency in meeting challenges of past and recent economic crises as well as major natural disasters (Arfani and Hapsari 2013), Indonesia’s export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs) —such as the ones forming the three clusters in Yogya ...

THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS OF THE TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT IN THE PACIFIC ALLIANCE

11 August 2017

The Pacific Alliance (PA) has become one of the main regional integration schemes in Latin America, with a discourse focused on actions, where trade facilitation is one of the most important elements in the work agenda. In this sense, the implementation o ...

Effects of Trade Facilitation on Sectoral Trade

9 August 2017

This contribution focuses on the analysis of the relationship between trade facilitation, transport costs and sectoral trade in developing countries. A gravity model is estimated using sectoral exports from 181 countries over the period 2004-2013. The mod ...

How the Reduction of Regulatory Barriers to Trade in Services may affect the Architecture of Global Value Chains: The Case of TISA

9 August 2017

reflecting the increasing relevance of trade in intermediates. This research ...

Aide pour le commerce et connexion aux chaînes de valeurs mondiales: Quelles leçons pour la croissance dans les pays de la CEDEA

9 August 2017

Cette contribution a pour objectif d’analyser les relations entre l’aide pour le commerce, la connectivité aux chaînes de valeurs globales et la croissance économique dans les pays de la CEDEAO. Pour y parvenir, plusieurs outils et modèles sont mobilisés ...

The Digital Creative Economy, Global Value Chains and Developing Countries: The Role of Aid for Trad in Building Connectivity and Facilitating Market Entry for Developing Countries

9 August 2017

This paper addresses the rise of the digital creative economy which is one of the defining features of the contemporary global economy given that creative content accounts for a significant share of e-commerce as well as content on mobile networks, the In ...

Provisions on Electronic Commerce in Regional Trade Agreements

14 November 2016

This paper reviews the different types of provisions explicitly addressing electronic commerce (e-commerce) in regional trade agreements (RTAs). The analysis covers the 275 RTAs currently in force and notified to the WTO as of May 2017. The analysis shows ...

A Note on the Interplay among Trade Facilitation, Global value chains and Income Inequality

1 October 2016

1.Motivation: The increasing relevance of time as a trade barrier; 2.The relationship between time and Global Value Chains (capital intensive goods are more sensitive to time); 3.Can the TFA promote a new wave of fragmentation?; 4.How the TFA is likely to ...

THE IMPACT OF THE RECYCLING INDUSTRY ON POVERTY LEVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMAL ECONOMY: A CASE STUDY OF WASTE PICKERS IN PRETORIA

1 October 2016

South Africa is gripped by high and rising levels of unemployment and poverty, which have conspired to create a society that is one of the most unequal in the world today. This is not helped by the fact that the troubled global and local economies are squ ...

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