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…
Regional integration is seen as a key priority by many developing countries towards achieving economic diversification, industrialization and structural transformation that are…
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…