Development and building trade capacity

This chapter analyses the potential for e-commerce activities in Africa. The rapid growth of internet penetration and the use of mobile telephony, along with the adoption of mobile innovations that have greatly boosted financial inclusion and encouraged reliance on electronic payment, have established a strong basis for e-commerce development on the continent. On the other hand, still-low banking rates, fragile laws and regulations governing the sector, Read More

Le commerce international s’est repris en 2002, après le recul enregistré l’année précédente, augmentant d’environ 2,5 pour cent en volume, soit plus vite que la production mondiale. Ce redressement s’est opéré malgré la faiblesse de la reprise économique mondiale, la forte compression des flux de capitaux, les amples fluctuations des taux de change, les restrictions plus sévères imposées sur les transactions commerciales internationales pour limiter l Read More

La mondialisation est en train de transformer le développement. Par son ampleur et sa rapidité, l’essor récent du monde en développement est sans précédent, éclipsant celui des nouveaux pays industrialisés après la Seconde Guerre mondiale et celui de l’Europe et de l’Amérique du Nord à la fin du XIXe siècle. De nombreux facteurs expliquent le décollage économique du monde en développement. L’un des plus importants est son intégration dans Read More

Dans cette section, il sera question de la synchronisation et de la propagation accrues des chocs macroéconomiques au cours des dernières années, après ce qui semblait être une modération générale de la volatilité. Elle examine le rôle des chaînes de valeur mondiales dans la transmission des chocs macroéconomiques et la façon dont les structures d’exportation influent sur la volatilité. Elle décrit comment la crise économique s’est propagée Read More

This report on the “trade impacts of LDC graduation” responds to a specific request from the LDC Group in the WTO for an analysis of how graduating from LDC status will impact countries’ trade relations. LDCs are accorded special treatment in the WTO, in particular with regard to enhanced market access opportunities and policy flexibilities. Therefore, it is important to ascertain how the loss of such treatment will impact graduating LDCs. The issue h Read More

Morocco’s membership of the GATT and WTO has been part of an overall strategy of the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco, at the instigation of the late King Hassan II, to introduce a package of institutional and socio-economic reforms, which sought mainly to modify and diversify the structure of the national economy, optimize the allocation of its resources and ensure its integration into the world economy. Being a Member of the Multilateral Tr Read More

The emergence of global value chains – whereby goods that used to be produced within one country are now fragmented and distributed across global networks of production – has offered developing countries new opportunities to integrate into the global economy. This has also had fundamental impacts for workers in developing countries. The chapter shows that higher earnings and employment within sectors and firms is associated with GVC integrat Read More

An underlying objective of the WTO is to promote economic development through effective participation in world trade. Three aspects of the WTO’s structure and rules are relevant to the question of how developing countries can derive greater benefits from participation in the trading system. First, the rules themselves, together with permitted exceptions and interpretations, are the foundation of the system and play a key part in determining the condi Read More

Trade liberalization has been a key component of economic development and transformation in the global economy since the middle of the last century and is a leading force in fostering globalization and connectivity in the twenty-first century. Trade reform has been on the agenda of African economies, first under the IMF-supported structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s and the early 1990s, and subsequently pursued within the multilateral le Read More