The main idea of this paper is that the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone should proactively align with international high - standard investment facilitation rules (especially the WTO Agreement on Investment Facilitation, the Comprehensive and…
El Reglamento del Modelo OMC Ecuador 2024 – Conferencia Ministerial establece las normas y procedimientos para la simulación académica de la Conferencia Ministerial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), en el marco del evento organizado por…
Esta Conferencia Ministerial, convocada por el Consejo Ejecutivo de la OIT, reunió a líderes mundiales para abordar los desafíos y oportunidades cambiantes del comercio internacional. En un contexto marcado por la incertidumbre económica y la rápida…
Históricamente la seguridad alimentaria ha sido y es una preocupación tanto para los tomadores de decisión como para los consumidores a nivel global. Garantizar el acceso y la disponibilidad de alimentos, es una tarea que pasa por la producción y el…
Recent research on international trade suggests that economic development and growth occur as countries gain knowledge and learn to produce and export more sophisticated products. This study examines the effect of trade facilitation on economic…
When we proxy trade finance by the sum of trade finance loans and export-adjusted notes receivable, elasticity estimates range between 0.18-0.31 depending on the sample of exporters. These estimates are comparable to single and multi-instrument…
This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation factors on trade flows, with a particular focus on Global Value Chains (GVCs) in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using the structural gravity model of international and intra-national…
Trade and sustainable development share a complex relationship. The economic benefits of trade make it easy to see how it can assist with the achievement of the economic-based SDGs. But beyond that, trade also impacts the social and environmental…
The growing importance of trade in services in the international economy motivates the study of different factors that may influence the development of this sector. This paper seeks to contribute to the scarce research on access to financing for the…
This chapter analyses the impact of the internet on global value chains (GVCs) in Africa. We investigate the effect of internet adoption on forward participation and backward participation of African countries in GVCs. We conduct the estimations…