"While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of many successful emerging market economies known as "growth … evidence is scarce in part because it is more difficult to measure the degree of leapfrogging than the extent of trade openness …

Realizing the promise of the new global initiatives to expand trade requires concerted effort to move development to … center stage in trade policy formulation. This report is dedicated to that agenda. It begins with a review of global … four broad areas that are particularly important to developing countries: merchandise trade, services, transport, and …

June 2000 - If negotiations on trade in services at the World Trade Organization are to advance liberalization beyond …. Negotiations on trade in services at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels … product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to improve trade policy in goods and …

This paper studies the trade effects of Covid-19 using monthly disaggregated trade data for 28 countries and multiple … show that the negative trade effects induced by Covid-19 shocks varied widely across sectors. Sectors more amenable to …

not necessarily to create more Mozambican training institutions but to address market-specific problems. Where skills are …-side problems: capital market imperfections that inhibit investment in training institutions by entrepreneurs and in education by … regional education market by regulatory and language differences that prevent the emergence of regional institutions that can …

East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that … access to important markets. A detailed analysis of the evolution of East Asia's trade and trade policy in goods and services … proximate national and regional challenges. The first is the emergence of one East Asian country, China, as a global trade giant …

potentially creating pressure for trade action. A key factor affecting the impact of any border taxes is whether they are based on … seriously damage developing country trade …