Development and building trade capacity

En la presente sección se examina la pertinencia de las actuales normas comerciales, así como la necesidad de nuevos enfoques de la cooperación a nivel comercial, a la luz de las fuerzas que están reconfigurando actualmente el comercio internacional. Se señala que será necesario que el sistema multilateral de comercio, como lo ha hecho reiteradamente en el pasado, se adapte a los acontecimientos que están teniendo lugar en el comercio y en el en Read More

This report argues that informality in developing countries deprives about 60 per cent of the workers in these countries of proper income and career opportunities. At the same time, high informality rates limit government resources, which could be used productively, and depress the growth of aggregate demand, hampering a country’s successful integration into the world economy. This means that successful formalization strategies would not only Read More

International trade is the exchange of capital, goods and services across international borders or territories. Even though the WTO advocates trade opening, many WTO members do not liberalize every sector of the economy and, instead, maintain certain barriers to trade. Many of these barriers take the form of non-tariff barriers (NTBs), i.e. discriminatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) imposed by governments to favour domestic over foreign suppliers (Nicit Read More

Low- and middle-income countries face supply-side constraints such as technical capacities, adequate hard infrastructure capacities, human capital (above all knowhow), access to adequate credit, and access to environmental goods and services that affect their capacity to address climate change and other environmental issues. This chapter discusses how the existing framework of international economic law may constrain the ability of low- or middle Read More

Le présent chapitre analyse le potentiel que représentent les activités de commerce électronique en Afrique. La croissance rapide de la pénétration d’Internet et de l’utilisation de la téléphonie mobile, ainsi que l’adoption d’innovations mobiles qui ont fortement stimulé l’inclusion financière et encouragé le recours au paiement électronique, ont établi une base solide pour le développement du commerce électronique sur le continent. En revanche, les Read More

Using the World Trade Organization (WTO) Global Trade Model (GTM), a recursive, dynamic computable general equilibrium model, we examine the potential future impact of technological innovations, in the form of robotization and use of artificial intelligence (AI), servicification of the production process, and falling trade costs due to the rise of online markets and platforms on the trade of developing countries. The simulations show that technological ch Read More

«Les données sont le nouveau pétrole». Tout comme le pétrole, qui a fait tourner l’économie au cours du siècle dernier, les données sont le moteur du monde d’aujourd’hui. Cela est d’autant plus vrai pour le commerce international. Le rôle crucial que jouent les données est perceptible à toutes les étapes du processus, de la conception d’un nouveau produit à l’approvisionnement en matières premières et en pièces, en passant par le processus de fabri Read More

Many developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) remain on the margins of global trade, attract limited foreign or domestic investment, and have achieved only very limited success in the diversification of their supply of goods and services. Within the framework of Aid for Trade (AFT), attempts are being made to explore strategies to connect firms in developing countries and LDCs to international value chains. The World Trade Organization (WTO) h Read More