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20 December 2012
Егуйлюз Алехандра Замора, Альма Еспино и Мария Инес Васкес Расширение международной торговли имеет различные последствия для мужчин и женщин. В связи с этим возникает вопрос об использовании конкретных инициатив в области торговли как средств для продвижения принципов гендерного равенства и...
2 November 2012
ЕС сократил список стран, которые будут пользоваться европейской схемой торговых преференций. Из схемы преференций Евросоюза исключены государства, которые согласно данным Всемирного банка за последние три года достигли высокого или выше среднего уровня доходов. В список стран с уровнем доходов...
13 August 2012
This issue is published jointly with International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP), and brings together experts on trade in services to highlight a number of key challenges and opportunities facing the continent in deploying services trade to promote growth, sustainable development,...
13 August 2012
Services are essential to the functioning of the modern economy and inextricable from any efforts to enhance growth, promote development and reduce poverty. They can affect growth and development in various ways: creating incomes and employment, contributing to consumer welfare, helping the...
13 August 2012
The emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) has produced remarkable changes in the pattern of world trade over the past 25 years. Rather than trade in goods that are produced solely at one location and exported to the consumer in another location, production of goods and, increasingly, services...
13 August 2012
Services play a crucial role in the economic growth and social development of developing countries. They do this by contributing to competitiveness, the social realm, and the generation of employment, income, and foreign exchange earnings. Services are a key component of the production process...
13 August 2012
Future growth, development, and integration in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on a well-functioning, competitive, and well-regulated services sector. Restricted access to competitive services, however, remains an impediment in most SSA countries, partially due to their poor state of economic...
13 August 2012
Today, trade in services contributes more than 75 percent to GDP in the case of highly industrialized countries but remains below 50 percent in the case of low-income developing countries. Raising the contribution of trade in services to GDP in the developing countries is critical for sustaining...
13 August 2012
The World Bank’s Africa Infrastructure Report concludes that, in addition to suffering from poor quality and coverage, Africans pay rates that are several times higher than in other developing regions for infrastructure services like electricity, water, sanitation, transport, logistics, finance,...
18 June 2012
Keen to avoid a political non-event at Rio+20, some cautious parties have pinned their hopes on an agreed set of goals that aim to provide a viable framework to help implement measures crucial to international and national support for sustainable development. The so-called Sustainable Development...
8 February 2012
High trade barriers with neighboring countries are costing African nations billions of dollars of potential earnings and depriving the continent of new sources of economic growth, says the World Bank in a report released yesterday. As a consequence, Africa has integrated with the rest of the world...
27 January 2012
On 20 January the Untied Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) hosted a policy debate to accompany the Geneva-launch of the ILO volume: "Trade and Employment: From Myths to Facts." Promises of more and better jobs with increased...