This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

large-scale refugee situations. Refugee flows are complex, often protracted, and, require humanitarian, development and …

This paper investigates the impact labour regulation, as defined by labour standards, have on the international trade …

such disparities are increasing, partly as a consequence of the uneven impact of trade openness and globalization. While …The UNU-WIDER project on 'Spatial Disparities in Human Development' has collected and analyzed evidence on the extent …

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are key instruments to governing international trade, and reflect a balance between … trade constraining and explores ways in which future RTAs can facilitate trade. It finds that market access could be … safeguards to those allowed by the WTO-AoA, prohibiting export subsidies and other export restrictions except as permitted by …

What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform … scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non …-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to agriculture. Simulations of multilateral and regional trade agreements …

trade regime, exchange rate, credit and interest rate policies - were largely unnecessary or excessive. …

. Both theory and experience show that the trade integration model is badly equipped to be the basis for regionalization in …