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Synthèses : Le Programme de Doha pour le Développement : Droits de douane et commerce

pdf,97Kb,French | View long abstract

08-Feb-2004

Synthèses : Le Programme de Doha pour le Développement : Droits de douane et commerce

Policy Brief: The Doha Development Agenda: Tariffs and Trade

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27-Aug-2003

The opening of markets has boosted trade and economic growth worldwide in the past few decades. Yet tariffs – taxes imposed by importing countries on foreign goods – still remain a key obstacle to market ...

Policy Brief: Trade Facilitation: The Benefits of Simpler, more Transparent Border Procedures

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27-Aug-2003

International trade has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it the relative importance of border procedures such as Customs requirements, adding to the cost for governments and business, and ultimately ...

Policy Brief: Opening up Trade in Services - Opportunities and Gains for Developing Countries

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27-Aug-2003

Services, from health and education to telecommunications and transport, are becoming the single largest sector in many economies. Not only do they provide the bulk of employment and income in many countries, ...

Policy Brief: Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System - The role of regional trade agreements

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27-Aug-2003

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are an integral part of international trade, accounting for almost half of world trade and expected to grow further in the next few years. These agreements operate alongside ...

Policy Brief: Trade Capacity Building: Critical for Development

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27-Aug-2003

The global annual welfare gains from further multilateral trade liberalisation, involving both tariff reduction and trade facilitation, would be substantial. Recent OECD estimates suggest that they would ...

Policy Brief: Policy coherence: Vital for global development

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27-Aug-2003

Trade and investment, coupled with transfers of knowledge and technology and an appropriate institutional framework, have been major engines of global economic growth in developed and developing countries ...