<p>• The Asia-Pacific region continues to be the largest contributor to the worldwide build-up of preferential trade agreements (PTAs), accounting for about half of PTAs worldwide. PTAs have become bigger, deeper, and ...

<b>Merchandise trade</b><br> - Following a global demand slowdown in the second half of this year, global and regional real merchandise trade growth is expected to be limited in 2022. Global real exports and imports are ...

Trade in commercial services is set for a fragile recovery in 2021, after a considerable fall in 2020: Global exports and imports values are forecast to increase by just 2.7% and 1.2%, respectively, in 2021, compared to ...

<p>&bull; The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the collapse of global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which fell 42 per cent from US$1.5 trillion in 2019 to an estimated U$$859 billion in 2020. The most recent ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in the current health sector. From 2019 to 2020, investment in the health-care sector dropped by 45 per cent and continued to decline in 2021 to 34 per cent in the first ...

Global and regional merchandise trade have faced significant downward pressure throughout 2019 and 2020. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with increasing trade tensions and an already slowing global ...

<ul> <li>The Asia-Pacific region is a major contributor of PTAs, accounting for about half of PTAs worldwide. As of November 2021, there are 195 PTAs in force, 19 signed and pending ratification, and 97 under negotiation, ...

<b>Merchandise goods trade</b> <p>• Faced with a continued shift towards spending in services, high living costs, a restrictive policy environment and geopolitical uncertainty, merchandise trade is forecasted to decline ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on trade in commercial services, turning it from weak growth in 2019 to a sharp contraction in 2020. Globally, commercial services trade value grew by only 2% in 2019. ...

<ul> <li>After a dramatic year for the global economy, economic activity and international merchandise trade rebounded strongly in 2021. Global merchandise exports and imports are estimated to have surpassed pre-pandemic ...