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 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 ...

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, ...