Development and building trade capacity

Las innovaciones digitales están transformando la economía mundial. La disminución de los costos de búsqueda y de información, el rápido crecimiento de nuevos productos y mercados y la aparición de nuevos participantes que han propiciado las tecnologías digitales pueden impulsar los flujos comerciales mundiales, incluidas las exportaciones de los países en desarrollo. Pero las tecnologías digitales también amenazan la privacidad y la seguridad en Read More

The obstacles to deeper African integration are great, but the potential gains for development and poverty reduction warrant a sustained effort to overcome these challenges. High trade barriers between countries have been reflected in trade that is more oriented toward distant markets than neighbouring African countries – it is often easier for Africans to trade with the rest of the world than with each other. The potential exists for greater intra-African trade Read More

Desde sus comienzos, el sistema internacional de comercio ha estado configurado por una mezcla de principios y pragmatismo. Las relaciones comerciales no pueden determinarse exclusivamente sobre la base de simples principios puros definidos y acordados en los comienzos. En la determinación de las posiciones adoptadas por los gobiernos intervienen inevitablemente consideraciones prácticas y políticas y expresiones particulares del interés na Read More

Globalization is under fire. Public perceptions and recent policy debates increasingly appear to indicate that trade liberalization has been accompanied by rising income inequality in developed and developing economies. The fact that trade liberalization creates both winners and losers has never been in question. While international trade enhances economic growth in the aggregate, the distribution of its benefits may vary by income group, locatio Read More

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.