This report details the state of LAC-Asia-Pacific trade and investment relations. We reach three main results. Economic ties between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia-Pacific1 have expanded and diversified remarkably over the past few years. Biregional trade has grown in double...

Remittance traffic in the Western Hemisphere has crossed a threshold not only in magnitude, but also in significance highlighting profound emotional bonds between relatives separated by geography and the importance of remittances for development in migrants' countries of origin.

Second Meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean

Border control agencies, including customs authorities, face major challenges balancing a country's need for controls with the benefits of facilitating cross-border traffic in people and goods. To better manage the growing volume of travelers and trade, a significant number of leading customs...

Interoperability among government agencies at national borders, also known as coordinated border management (CBM), is a fundamental component of a nation's modernized customs and border control strategy. It comprises the streamlining of parallel processes and technologies enabling different...

This policy brief is intended to serve as the basis for the discussion of the Ministers of Finance on action needed to promote physical infrastructure and reduce intra-regional trade costs, in the context of the Third Meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Americas and the Caribbean held in...

Second Meeting of the Finance Ministers of the Americas and the CaribbeanAbstract: Segunda Reunión de Ministros de Hacienda de América y El Caribe

MERCOSUR Report No. 16 - July 2010-June 2011 - analyzes the macroeconomic outlook and trade flows of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) countries, as well as the main aspects of the block's integration process, in terms both of its internal and external agendas.

The objective of the WTO¿s Aid for Trade (AFT) initiative is to help developing countries to build the supply-side capacity and trade related infrastructure needed to implement and benefit from trade liberalization and enhance market access, and more broadly to expand their trade.

This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on September 17th and 18th, 2002.