Short description: How to develop tailored crisis-mitigation provisions in trade agreements to build resilience and better preparedness for future crises? The Session titled “…
This Regional Consultation is organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This Regional Consultation is organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This Regional Consultation is organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit hard all economies across the globe. Some of the economies most affected have been those heavily dependent on cross-border travel and tourism services…
This Regional Consultation is organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This webinar will focus on a number of specific issues policymakers need to address in responding to the challenges and opportunities offered by digital trade. The basis for the…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit hard all economies across the globe. Some of the economies most affected have been those heavily dependent on cross-border travel and tourism services…
This Regional Consultation was organized in response to a request from ESCAP’s Committee on Trade and Investment held in January 2021. The objective of the Regional Consultation is…
This webinar will focus on a number of specific issues policymakers need to address in responding to the challenges and opportunities offered by digital trade. The basis for the…
A new dawn is upon the world of cross border trade digitization. A stable and reliable foundation is forming with momentum on UNCITRAL MLETR adoption, uptake in LEI utilization, an…
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed countries’ reliance on ad-hoc unilateral measures in response to crisis. To combat the pandemic, countries took measures such as…
Advancing digital and sustainable trade facilitation for building back better 14 July 2021 | 15:00-16:30 Bangkok time (GMT +7) The United Nations Regional Commissions (UNRCs) have…
15:00-16:40 (GMT+7) In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia-Pacific region has increased the implementation of digital trade facilitation measures and sought to improve…
09:00-10:30 (GMT+7), Bangkok time RIVA Value Chain Analyzer is an online tool for policy makers, analysts and researchers to better understand their economy’s integration in global…
Services value-added now accounts for almost half of all world trade. But costs of trading services are twice as high as trade costs for goods. This is partly due to…
The presentation will discuss the impact of the US-China trade war on technology and global value chains. It will discuss the tit-for-tat regulations that are technology-…
This talk will draw from the recent OECD Trade Policy Paper No. 246 Trade and Gender: A Framework of Analysis that was co-authored by Jane Korinek, Evdokia Moïsé and Jakob…
This talk will be based on the recent CISIfo Working Paper No 7825 “From Theory to Policy with Gravitas: A Solution to the Mystery of the Excess Trade Balances” by Gabriel…
Introduction Countries have increasingly moved from negotiating narrow-scope preferential trade agreements to more comprehensive economic partnership agreements (CEPAs). Such…
Regional integration is seen as a key priority by many developing countries towards achieving economic diversification, industrialization and structural transformation that are…
This online course is designed to introduce participants to the basic techniques involved in machine learning and text mining, with applications focusing on international trade…
The workshop will provide an in-depth introduction on using ESCAP’s online Trade Intelligence and Negotiation Advisor (TINA – available at https://tina.trade) for help in trade…
In this talk, Prof. Deardorff will look at the roles that international trade played, first in spreading the virus around the world, then in getting the tools for dealing with the…
The webinar features a panel discussion, comprising experts with relevant experience in establishing and/or operating trade information portals, and discusses practical measures for…
Abstract: The talk is based on the paper co-authored with Rishi R. Sharma of Colgate University. The paper conducts analysis of a free trade agreement within a simple model of…
A part of ESCAP-OECD Initiative on Digital Trade Regulatory Analysis, the OECD Digital STRI TI captures cross-cutting impediments that affect all types of services traded digitally…
Course description The goal of the workshop is to serve as a practical guide for trade policy analysis with the structural gravity model, i.e., the workhorse model in international…
A part of ESCAP-OECD Initiative on Digital Trade Regulatory Analysis, the ESCAP RDTII identifies and quantifies regulatory restrictiveness in comprehensive policy areas that affect…