Miscellaneous Publications

This page includes content-rich current outputs (updated document versions, miscellaneous documents and web pages).

1. Global Trade and Financial Architecture Project

• The objectives of this project, undertaken during 2004-2005 and supported financially by the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), are to identify and analyze options for making the multilateral trading system more supportive of development, and in particular to follow up on a number of the specific recommendations made in the UN MDG taskforce report (“Trade for development”). A number of research papers generated by the project have been posted on the website of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization under the heading Global Trade Reform. Posted papers address trade and povery linkages, preference erosion, the need for and design of additional "aid for trade" mechanisms and the design and enforcement of trade agreements, including new approaches towards special and differential treatment. The site also includes a summary of the main policy conclusions emerging from the project: “Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Economic Development: An Agenda for Action”. For more information and access to the papers and report, please go to Global Trade and Financial Architecture.
  
  
• Development and the Global Trading Architecture - An Overview of the Global Trade and Financial Architecture Project- (pdf - 180k)
  
  
• Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Economic Development: An Agenda for Action
  • English version - (pdf - 65k)
  • French version - (pdf - 78k)
  • Spanish version - (pdf - 83k)
    
    

2. WTO's Doha Development Agenda

3. Discussion Papers:

• Integrating the Least Developed Countries in the World Trading System: The Current Impact of EU Preferences under Everything But Arms, Paul Brenton (April 2003)
  
  
• The Uruguay Round and the Developing Economies, Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (October 1995)

4. Policy Papers:

• Market Access for Developing Country Exports - Selected Issues (pdf - 826k) (September 2002)
  
  
• Trade Blocs (August 2000)
  
  
• Trade Performance and Policy in the New Independent States, Constantine Michalopoulos and David Tarr (March 1996)
  
  
• Did Domestic Policies Marginalize Africa in International Trade?, Alexander Yeats with Azita Amjadi, Ulrich Reincke and Francis Ng (January 1997)
  
  
• What Makes Exports Boom?, Mark J. Roberts and James R. Tybout (January 1997)
  
  
• The Uruguay Round: Widening and Deepening the World Trading System, Will Martin and L. Alan Winters (January 1995)

5. Regional Studies:

• "Comparative Advantage in International Trade for Central Asia," (pdf - 340k) Matthias Luecke and Jacek Rothert (January 2006).
  Note: Data used for this study are available to the public through the ITC's TradeMap tool at www.trademap.org.
  
  
• Trade Facilitation: A Development Perspective in the Asian Pacific Region (pdf - 1.27Mb) John S. Wilson, Catherine Mann, Yuen Pau Woo, Nizar Assanie, and Inbom Choi (October 2002)
  
  
• What Can Africa Expect from Its Traditional Exports?, Francis Ng and Alexander Yeats (February 2002)
  
  
• Free Trade Area Membership as a Stepping Stone to Development: The Case of ASEAN, Emiko Fukase and Will Martin (February 2001)
  
  
• Trade and Foreign Exchange in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Reform Agenda, Economic Implications and Impact on the Poor, David Tarr (January 2001)
  
  
• On the Recent Trade Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa Countries: Cause for Hope or More of the Same?, Alexander Yeats and Francis Ng (September 2000)
  
  
• Trade Policies in the Caribbean Countries: A Look at the Positive Agenda (pdf - 303k) J. Michael Finger, Francis Ng, and Isidro Soloaga (June 1998)

6. Others:

• Making Trade Work for the Poor (pdf - 179k), Nicholas Stern (November 2002)

Last updated on Aug 13, 2008