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South-South Services Trade
This paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key...
South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
Non Tariff Barriers in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
With diminishing tariffs, the focus of trade policy makers and analysts is logically turning towards non-tariff barriers (NTBs), but there much...
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
The Doha Negotiations on Trade in Goods: A European Perspective
The note reviews the basic market access issues in the Doha negotiations on trade in goods from an European perspective. First, it shows that some...
Costs and Benefits of Protecting Geographical Indications: Some Lessons from the French Wine Sector
The current crisis in the French wine sector is partly due to the complexity and restrictiveness of the system used to protect geographical...