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Regional cooperation in export credit and export credit guarantees
(United Nations, 1995)
<p>Reviews the current policies and institutional arrangements for export finance and export credit/guarantees in selected economies in the ESCAP region; and examines the need and possible modalities for regional cooperation ...
The future WTO agenda and developing countries : selected papers and issues discussed at the ESCAP/UNCTAD/ADB meeting of senior officials on the future WTO agenda and developing countries, Bangkok, 23-25 August 1999
(United Nations, 2000)
<p>As ESCAP member countries prepare for the next WTO Ministerial Conference, a sense of harsh reality pervades as they grapple with the worst economic downturn of the past half-century. The lessons emerging from the crisis ...
Implications of general agreement on trade in services (GATS) for Asia-Pacific economies : report, studies and papers presented at a seminar held in Bangkok, 25-26 May 1998
(United Nations, 2000)
<p>The publication examines the implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) for developing countries of the ESCAP region and considers alternative scenarios as countries prepare for further multilateral ...
Delivering on the WTO round : a high-level government-business dialogue
(United Nations, 2005)
The publication aims to provide an understanding of the WTO accession process. It considers assisting economies in transition and others in the accession process, or contemplating to start application formalities to become ...
The role of trade and investment policies in the implementation of the Monterrey consensus : regional perspectives
(United Nations, 2005)
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 ...
Implications of the single European market for Asian and Pacific economies opportunities and challenges
(United Nations, 1997)
<p>Papers and proceedings presented at the Seminar on the Implications of the Single European Market for Asian and Pacific Economies: Opportunities and Challenges 10-12 July 1996, Bangkokm, under the Japan-ESCAP Cooperation ...
Assessing the potential and direction of agricultural trade within the ESCAP region
(UN.ESCAP, 1995)
<p>World agriculture has undergone substantial structural adjustments since the 1980s, and during this period the ESCAP region has emerged as one of the world's fastest growing regional markets for agricultural products.</p>
<p>At ...
Benefits and challenges facing Asia-Pacific agricultural trading countries in the Post-Uruguay Round period
(United Nations, 1995)
<p>The publication focuses on the implications of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) of the Uruguay Round Agreements on Agriculture for major agricultural commodity countries of the ESCAP region. It examines ...
Trade prospects for the year 2000 and beyond for the Asian and Pacific Region
(United Nations, 1995)
ESCAP, in collaboration with UNCTAD, organized a regional seminar in Beijing early in September 1994 to sensitize policy makers of Asia and the Pacific to emerging issues and critical factors in international trade of ...
Harmonized development of legal and regulatory systems for e-commerce in Asia and the Pacific : current challenges and capacity-building needs
(United Nations, 2004)
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, ...