Development and building trade capacity

The study explores structural and practical issues following the adoption of Indonesia’s e-commerce roadmap (2017–2019) and its implications for the future of the country’s digital economy. Two major categories of issues are examined in order to identify problems and challenges confronted by related stakeholders. The first category, i.e. the structural one, relates to the larger governance context of the country’s digital economy to which e-com Read More

The World Trade Report 2013 examines likely trends in world trade and how current and future economic, social and political factors might weigh on these trends. Relationships are not uni-directional, with trade being both the cause and effect of certain developments.

We are pleased to deliver preliminary remarks to this compilation of research work on digital trade prepared by the WTO Chairholders, Advisory Board members and the WTO Chairs Programme (WCP) team of the WTO Secretariat.

La croissance du commerce mondial est tombée à 2,0 % en 2012, contre 5,2 % en 2011, et est restée atone pendant les premiers mois de 2013, le ralentissement économique en Europe pesant sur la demande mondiale d’importations. La brusque décélération des échanges en 2012 était due principalement à la faible croissance des économies développées et à la persistance d’incertitudes quant à l’avenir de l’euro. Le fléchissement de Read More

Cette section examine la pertinence des règles commerciales actuelles – et la nécessité de nouvelles approches de la coopération commerciale – compte tenu des forces qui remodèlent actuellement le commerce international. Elle montre que le système commercial multilatéral devra s’adapter à l’évolution du commerce et de l’environnement commercial – comme il l’a fait à de nombreuses reprises dans le passé – et passe en revue les propositions faite Read More

Una de las características más sobresalientes de la economía mundial durante los últimos años ha sido el papel cada vez más importante que han desempeñado las economías en desarrollo. En esta sección se examina el modo en que muchos países han registrado un crecimiento económico impresionante durante el último decenio, logrando avances notables en la lucha contra la pobreza. Algunos de esos países son ahora productores Read More

This section assesses the impact of graduation on members’ participation in the WTO as well as implications under WTO rules. The section is structured as follows: Sections 3.1 arid 3.2 discuss tariff commitments as well as services commitments and their relation to LDC status as well as graduation; Sections 3.3-3.5 review the most pertinent LDC-specific provisions in WTO Agreements and Decisions and assesses the expected impact of graduation on grad Read More

The emergence of e-commerce is driving important changes in the ways of conducting international trade. It has become clear that improvements in trade facilitation implementation should be supported by electronic systems. Through a comparative study of a number of reports issued by international organizations – the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Unite Read More

The use of global input-output tables, and the creation of Trade in Value-Added (TiVA) statistics, has greatly improved our understanding of the fragmentation of global production through value chains. However, their application requires a number of assumptions that, in practice, typically understate the degree of interconnectedness. TiVA estimates implicitly assume identical production functions across firms within an industry, when in reality production fun Read More

This report consists of market access analyses for each of the 12 least-developed countries (LDCs) that are on the path towards graduation: Angola and Sao Tomé and Principe in Africa; Bangladesh, Bhutan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal and Timor-Leste in Asia; and Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu in the Pacific. It should be read in conjunction with the report Trade impacts of LDC graduation, which provides an ass Read More

This chapter analyses the impact of the internet on global value chains (GVCs) in Africa. We investigate the effect of internet adoption on forward participation and backward participation of African countries in GVCs. We conduct the estimations using country-level data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Eora GVC database and firm-level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey. We test wheth Read More

Despite a steady decline in its share of GDP and exports, the agricultural sector continues to play an important role in African economies, and in Senegal in particular, where it employs approximately 60 per cent of the labour force. It accounts for a quarter of national public investment, but contributed only 6 per cent to GDP between 2000 and 2009 (Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances du Sénégal, 2011). Horticulture is one of the promising sectors, as c Read More

In recent years there has been an intensification of the long-running debate on the effects of trade integration. This debate has focused largely on the impact of trade in advanced economies, which has risked diverting attention away from the impact of trade on people’s lives in developing countries, and especially the extreme poor. This volume brings together new research, using a range of different analytical approaches, that examines how the extreme po Read More

Le Rapport sur le commerce mondial 2014 analyse quatre tendances qui ont marqué la décennie écoulée: i) l’essor du monde en développement, ii) l’expansion des chaînes de valeur mondiales, iii) la hausse des prix des produits de base et l’importance croissante des exportations de ces produits et iv) la mondialisation des chocs macroéconomiques. En analysant ces tendances, le rapport examine comment elles ont redéfini le rôle du commerce d Read More

A partir del Modelo de Comercio Mundial de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), un modelo de equilibrio general computable, recursivo y dinámico, examinamos las posibles repercusiones futuras de las innovaciones tecnológicas, en forma de robotización y uso de la inteligencia artificial, la terciarización del proceso de producción y la disminución de los costos del comercio debido al aumento de los mercados y plataformas en línea en el comercio Read More