<p></p> Reducing trade costs is essential for developing economies to effectively use trade as an engine of growth and sustainable development. As a result, trade facilitation and the digitalization of trade procedures ...

The agricultural sector lies at the heart of the trade and sustainable development nexus. In the Asia-Pacific region, agricultural production provides livelihoods to close to half of the regional population. Agricultural ...

This Report presents the main findings of the second UN Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation covers 120 countries and 47 measures related to the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), ...

<p></p> Edited by Ravi Ratnayake, Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Martina Francesca Ferracane and Yann Duval. <p></p> In the post-crisis world, new drivers of growth are required to drive further reductions in poverty. This new ...

This monograph explores the challenges faced in implementing the Bali package by LDCs in WTO. It provides an analysis of the key decisions, and identifies opportunities and, in certain cases, outlines strategies for assessing ...

The drafting of the Handbook on negotiating development oriented intellectual property provisions in trade and investment agreements (Handbook here forth) was guided by the objective of supporting Asia and the Pacific ...