Latest content: Trade and economy

This paper provides empirical evidence on the production- and trade-distorting effects of the Green Box (GB) subsidies of developed countries.

This paper is focused on the protection of traditional knowledge (TK), including origin products, as a means of fostering the development of local communities in developing countries.

This paper outlines a new analytical framework for understanding how Commonwealth countries are responding to global challenges outlined in Part I of the review.

This issue of Trade Express focuses on the support provided by The Commonwealth Secretariat’s Trade Division to the National Export Strategy (NES) Secretariat to design Jamaica’s second NES.

This paper studies the evolution of the Commonwealth trade network and considers the interrelationship between Commonwealth member countries and other important players in the global economy, and intra-Commonwealth country trade flows.

This paper examines the economic impact of trade facilitation between Commonwealth members, using a global computable general equilibrium framework.

The paper examines the relationship between the burgeoning diasporic economy and the ways in which it facilitates the growth of trade, entrepreneurship and investment between migrant sending and receiving countries in the Commonwealth.

This study assembles data on bilateral goods and services trade flows for 242 countries over the period 1995–2010 and uses both descriptive statistics and sophisticated econometric techniques to understand the nature and structure of intra-Commonwealth trade, its determinants, and the trade effect of being a part of the Commonwealth.

This paper considers how access to international markets affects development and growth, with a particular emphasis on the Commonwealth countries.

The paper undertakes the estimation of two alternative indicators of integration—potential trade and trade distance—by estimating the Global Gravity Model, consisting a panel data of nearly 100 largest trading partners of the world and 12–years period during 2002–13.

Understanding the global/regional value chain interface remains an important research endeavour including within the Commonwealth.

This study highlights the emerging dynamics and further potential of intra-Commonwealth trade and investment.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics focuses on the integration of small economies in value chains in the agrifood, seafood, and textiles and apparel sectors in the case of goods, and in tourism as well as IT and business process outsourcing in the case of services.

Developing countries, including as small states and least developed countries (LDCs), continue to face significant challenges within the global trading system. Action is required to allow them to overcome disadvantages and achieve sustainable levels of income from trade.

This issue of Commonwealth Trade Hot Topics will focus only on non-tariff measures (NTMs) as they fall within the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) pillar of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in light of the WTO 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

This issue of Trade Express focuses on the support provided by the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Trade Competitiveness Section to the Government of Barbados in order to revitalise the services sector in the country through the development of a National Services Sector Development Plan (NSSD).

Small states face significant hurdles in securing the potential benefits of trade to their economies and in protecting themselves against trade practices and rules that harm their interests.