Liberalizing trade in environmental goods and services

Liberalizing Telecommunications and the Role of the World Trade Organization

February 15, 1997, will be remembered as a landmark date in the history of the multilateral trade system. On that day, sixty-nine governments formalized commitments to liberalize their basic telecommunications services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The resulting Decision on Commitments in Basic Telecommunications has both symbolic and practical meaning. The final act ...

NOTA DI LAVORO 77 . 2011 Trade in Environmental Goods , with Focus on Climate - Friendly Goods and Technologies

Paragraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration mandates to the liberalization of environmental goods and services. This mandate offers a good opportunity to put climate-friendly goods and services on a fast track to liberalization. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the key iss...

Intermediate Goods Trade and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of Iran-China Trade Relations

This paper tries to analyze the impacts of intermediate goods trade on production, consumption, investment, net exports, employment, labor wage and capital rent of Iran in its bilateral trade relations with China. This analysis has been done by modeling, solving and calibrating an international real business cycles (IRBC) model in period 1980-2009. The results show that when elasticity of subst...

De - Fragmenting aFrica Deepening Regional Trade Integration in Goods and Services

Intermediate Goods Trade, Technology Choice and Productivity

We develop a dynamic model of intermediate goods trade in which the pattern and the extent of intermediate goods trade are endogenous. We consider a small open economy whose …nal good production employs an endogenous array of intermediate goods, from low technology (high cost) to high technology (low cost). The underlying intermediate goods technology evolves over time. We allow for endogenous ...