Este Brief analiza y muestra que la exportación de servicios es una de las formas más operativa y concreta de aumentar las exportaciones,
especialmente cuando se trata de los servicios profesionales y empresariales. Adicionalmente, revela, mediante…
Las contrataciones públicas y, en particular, la políticas de “compre nacional”, aparecen como una opción muy apetecible dentro del menú de herramientas con que cuentan los gobiernos para apuntalar sus industrias nacionales en tiempos de escasez de…
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the first Multilateral trade agreement to cover trade in services. Its creation was one of the major achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations from 1986 to 1993, whose results became…
We have witnessed the resurgence of regional development in terms of regional economic integration groupings at the global level over the past decades. The fundamental objectives for the formation of these sub regional and regional integration…
Foreign direct investment is believed to promote exports of host countries by augmenting domestic capital for exports, helping transfer technology and new products for exports. It also facilitates access to new and large foreign markets, provides…
Trade in agricultural commodities has enormous variations in terms of impacts – be they on poverty, gender or the environment. This underlines the significance of careful analysis in the choice of trade development path for the sector and calls for…
The term non-tariff measures (NTMs) is defined to include export restraints and production and export subsidies, or measures with similar effect, not just import restraints. In Kenya many internal processes by trade facilitation agencies have been…
On the 20th day of November 2009, in the city of Arusha, Tanzania, presidents Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (Tanzania), Pierre Nkurunziza (Burundi), Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) jointly signed the Protocol…
Informal Cross-Border Trade in agricultural commodities between Kenya and her neighbours has been growing with time, but knowledge of its magnitude, determinants and consequences remain largely inadequate. This has acted to inhibit formulation of…
This concept paper has discussed the World Trade Organisation ( WTO) – on going Doha round negotiations on Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) and flanked out the areas that need to be researched on, with an ultimate objectives of informing the…