Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …

current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

shipment times and trade costs. For the world, the average reduction in shipment time will range between 1.2 and 2.5 percent …

the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …