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13 August 2012
This issue is published jointly with International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP), and brings together experts on trade in services to highlight a number of key challenges and opportunities facing the continent in deploying services trade to promote growth, sustainable development,...
13 August 2012
Services are essential to the functioning of the modern economy and inextricable from any efforts to enhance growth, promote development and reduce poverty. They can affect growth and development in various ways: creating incomes and employment, contributing to consumer welfare, helping the...
13 August 2012
The emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) has produced remarkable changes in the pattern of world trade over the past 25 years. Rather than trade in goods that are produced solely at one location and exported to the consumer in another location, production of goods and, increasingly, services...
13 August 2012
Drawing on experiences in the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa’s efforts should be focused on building a strong and functional relationship with government(s), securing financial support for the first 3-5 years of operation, and ensuring an immediate attention on avenues for attaining financial self-...
13 August 2012
Services play a crucial role in the economic growth and social development of developing countries. They do this by contributing to competitiveness, the social realm, and the generation of employment, income, and foreign exchange earnings. Services are a key component of the production process...
13 August 2012
Future growth, development, and integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on a well-functioning, competitive, and well-regulated services sector. Restricted access to competitive services, however, remains an impediment in most SSA countries, partially due to their poor state of economic...
13 August 2012
Today, trade in services contributes more than 75 percent to GDP in the case of highly industrialized countries but remains below 50 percent in the case of low-income developing countries. Raising the contribution of trade in services to GDP in the developing countries is critical for sustaining...
13 August 2012
Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) have been used as trade-policy instruments in West African countries since their independence. However, aside from the movements of the production factors, the first RIAs in the subregion barely mentioned services. The first agreements connected with services...
13 August 2012
The World Bank’s Africa Infrastructure Report concludes that, in addition to suffering from poor quality and coverage, Africans pay rates that are several times higher than in other developing regions for infrastructure services like electricity, water, sanitation, transport, logistics, finance,...
7 August 2012
Летние месяцы этого года выдались насыщенными событиями: лидеры и переговорщики различных стран пытались договориться по наиболее актуальным вопросам как в рамках саммитов крупнейших многосторонних организаций и форумов, так и в ходе множества двусторонних встреч. Участники саммита «Большой...
22 July 2012
O TPR sobre a China revela a complexa relação deste país com os demais membros da OMC. O mesmo governo que é saudado por adotar medidas importantes no combate à crise econômica é criticado por conceder incentivos exagerados às suas empresas. À luz dessa tensão, este artigo apresenta as principais conclusões do TPR.
9 May 2012
Governments should curb farm subsidies and discipline import and export restrictions in order to boost farm productivity, according to a confidential report by international agencies for the leaders of the G-20 group of major economies. The draft has been prepared jointly by twelve organisations...
2 May 2012
Proteccionismo y comportamiento de divisas dominaron agenda comercial de Cumbre de las Américas El impacto de las políticas monetarias de los países desarrollados en las economías de América Latina y el surgimiento de nuevas restricciones a la importación, fueron los temas que dominaron la...
8 February 2012
High trade barriers with neighboring countries are costing African nations billions of dollars of potential earnings and depriving the continent of new sources of economic growth, says the World Bank in a report released yesterday. As a consequence, Africa has integrated with the rest of the world...