Development and building trade capacity
Executive summary
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World Trade Report 2003
Aug 2003
Chapter
At the Fourth World Trade Organization Ministerial Meeting held in Doha in November 2001, Ministers launched a comprehensive set of multilateral trade negotiations and a work programme. This mandate is sometimes referred to as the Doha Development Agenda, reflecting a shared desire to ensure that the trading system is relevant and responsive to the needs of developing countries. Among the areas covered by the negotiations or the work progra Read More
La tributación del comercio electrónico internacional: particularidades de Rusia
Nov 2020
Chapter
Los tipos impositivos aplicados al comercio electrónico en Rusia deberían seguir siendo moderados, dado el bajo volumen de las operaciones de comercio digital en el país (por lo que un aumento de los tipos apenas incrementaría los ingresos fiscales) y las grandes perspectivas de crecimiento del sector (su desarrollo podría generar elevados ingresos fiscales en el futuro). La tributación de las actividades de comercio electrónico en la Federación de R Read More
L’ère du commerce numérique – possibilités et défis pour les pays en développement : Le cas du Kenya
Nov 2020
Chapter
Le commerce électronique a connu une croissance rapide au Kenya, grâce aux lois régissant les services liés aux technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC), les transactions électroniques, la protection des données et l’accès à l’information. Les pouvoirs publics ont mis en place des guichets uniques pour la fourniture de services publics aux citoyens et pour la logistique commerciale. Le pays a les moyens de développer son commerce Read More
¿Los avances digitales y el crecimiento inclusivo son objetivos compatibles? Consecuencias para la política comercial en los países en desarrollo
Nov 2020
Chapter
En los últimos años, los responsables de la formulación de políticas han prestado cada vez más atención a dos fenómenos importantes y generalizados: el aumento de la desigualdad (que es el resultado de un acceso desigual al empleo productivo) y la aceleración del ritmo de la cuarta revolución industrial o la “era digital”. En el presente capítulo se estudia el concepto de desigualdad y la razón por la que es importante promover un crecimiento más incl Read More
Trade Rules, Industrial Policy and Competitiveness: Implications for Africa’s Development
Jan 2016
Chapter
Industrialization is one of the cardinal priorities for economies in dynamic transformation from a commodity base to a diversified value-added development stage. In major African economies, as in other economies worldwide, industrial policy is resurgent and back at the centre of economic policy. The sectors in focus revolve around manufacturing, textiles and clothing, footwear, automobiles, infrastructure, information technology products, petrochemical Read More
Resumen ejecutivo
Aug 2003
Chapter
En la primera sección del Informe sobre el Comercio Mundial, 2004, se examinan la evolución reciente de la estructura, el valor y el volumen del comercio internacional de bienes y servicios, y las perspectivas del comercio para 2004. Se analizan también las preferencias no recíprocas, el movimiento internacional de personas proveedoras de servicios, y las indicaciones geográficas. En la segunda sección se examina el tema de la coherencia de Read More
Agricultural Logistics in Lagging Regions: Evidence from Uganda
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Trade and Poverty Reduction
Dec 2018
Chapter
Small scale farmers face many hurdles when attempting to connect to global markets. While infrastructure and trade facilitation improvements are helping to reduce overall trade costs, the challenges faced by such farmers are most acute at the local level. Efforts to eradicate poverty therefore need to start with constraints at the farmgate. The problems faced are compounded by the general lack access to proper agricultural inputs, technology and interm Read More
La economía creativa digital y el comercio: opciones estratégicas para los países en desarrollo
Nov 2020
Chapter
El sector creativo es una fuente importante de crecimiento en la economía mundial, y el comercio creativo digital ha aumentado considerablemente en los últimos años, en particular en el contexto de la COVID-19. Los contenidos digitales están sustituyendo a los bienes físicos en el sector, por ejemplo, en el terreno de la música, los libros y los juegos. Los agregadores digitales como Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify, TikTok y YouTube han impulsado un rá Read More
Conclusión
Aug 2003
Chapter
En este informe se ha pasado revista a una amplia gama de cuestiones. En el Resumen Ejecutivo que figura al comienzo del Informe se describen a grandes rasgos los principales temas tratados y las conclusiones formuladas. Un Informe de esta índole debe limitarse a bosquejar cuestiones complejas y basarse en gran medida en la labor analítica más detallada de muchos investigadores. En el texto se hace referencia a esa labor. Muchas de las cuestiones e Read More
Executive summary
Jul 2015
Chapter
The expansion of international trade has been essential to development and poverty reduction. Today’s economy is unquestionably global. Trade as a proportion of global GDP has approximately doubled since 1975. Markets for goods and services have become increasingly integrated through a fall in trade barriers, with technology helping drive trade costs lower. But trade is not an end in itself. People measure the value of trade by the extent to which Read More
Emerging issues requiring the attention of the international community
May 2018
Chapter
Over the past 20 years, international trade has undergone major changes. One main factor leading to these changes has been the unprecedented pace of technological innovation, which is transforming the traditional way of conducting trade. Supported by increasingly fast and efficient technology, e-commerce has been growing at significant rates. While global trade growth continues to be slow, e-commerce was valued at US$ 22.1 trillion in 2015, a 38% i Read More
Should high domestic value added in exports be an objective of policy?
Apr 2017
Chapter
Global value chains make it easier for developing countries to move away from export reliance on unprocessed primary products to become exporters of manufactures and services. Global value chains (GVCs) allow countries to specialize in a particular activity and join a global production network. As a developing country moves from export of primary products to export of manufactures and services via GVCs, the ratio of domestic value added to Read More
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Trade Impacts of LDC Graduation
May 2020
Chapter
At the request of the Group of Least-Developed Countries (LDC Group), the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, with the support of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), undertook a project to assess the trade-related implications of graduation from LDC status, in particular the impacts it may have on market access currently enjoyed by the LDCs, as well as their participation in the WTO. This study summarizes those impacts and looks at optio Read More
Nueva función de los productos básicos en las estrategias de desarrollo
Sept 2014
Chapter
En esta sección se examinan los problemas y las oportunidades que crean las estrategias de crecimiento y desarrollo centradas en los productos básicos cuando los precios son relativamente altos pero volátiles. En primer lugar figura un panorama histórico de la evolución de los precios de los recursos agropecuarios y naturales. A continuación se analiza el modo en que los países en desarrollo han logrado promover su desarrollo sacando partido Read More
Selected issues in trade and trade policy
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World Trade Report 2003
Aug 2003
Chapter
South-South trade has long been promoted as a means to reduce the dependence of developing countries on markets of developed countries and to enhance diversification of Southern exports beyond primary commodities. Most of the mechanisms that were created to foster co-operation among developing countries were largely subregional and regional arrangements, many of them preferential in nature. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Read More
Conclusion
Mar 2021
Chapter
As detailed in this report, open global trade has had positive effects for African industrialization and development. Efforts must continue to help developing countries and Africa build capacity and to take fuller advantage of the benefits that trade brings. Recently, faced with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of these efforts have been challenged and the developmental gains of recent years put in question.
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