This publication focuses on export competitiveness policy for sustained economic growth and recovery in the ESCAP region and reviews recent economic and trade developments. The impact of regionalism, multilateralism and ...

The Monterrey Consensus underscores the central role of international trade as well as private capital flows as engines for development. In many countries, they account for much larger sources of financing for development ...

This publication is the result of a project on the Harmonization of e-commerce Legal Systems in Asia and the Pacific (Phase I), implemented by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, ...

This publication provides perspectives when viewing the Asian and Pacific region in terms of the post-Cancún regional trading environment. Chapter I contains three analytical policy studies. Chapter II consists of three ...

This publication contains two background studies that ESCAP undertook as part of the IT programme for private sector development of the Greater Mekong Subregion. The study on regional trade in ICT goods and services in GMS ...

Emerging Trade Issues for Policymakers in Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific is the second volume arising from the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub research workshop series associated with an ESCAP project generously ...

This paper examines the current status of the WTO accession process and the experience of ESCAP developing members undergoing WTO accession: Bhutan, Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal Samoa, Vanuatu, ...

This publication of the ESCAP Studies in Trade and Investment contains two papers that examine emerging issues in the field of business development among the developing Asia-Pacific countries and suggest some possibilities ...