June 2006

The intention in this section is to bring recent publications in selected trade themes to the attention of users of this website on a monthly basis.This month's selection is on trade in services.

1. From UNCTAD: Emergency safeguard measures in the GATS: Beyond feasible and desirable by Mario Marconini

2. From UNCTAD: Trade in Services and Development Implications

3. From WTO: Services Trade Liberalization at the Regional Level: Does Southern and Eastern Africa Stand to Gain from EPA Negotiations?

4. Services in a Development Round: “What is at Stake for Developing Countries” by Prof. Umberto Celli Junior 1, International Trade Law and Development Institute
Asian Regional Dialogue on Trade in Services

5. This link takes you to presentations at a workshop by the South Centre on trade in services.

May 2006

The intention in this section is to bring recent publications in selected trade themes to the attention of users of this website on a monthly basis.This month's selection is on aid for trade.

1. From the South Centre:Aid for Trade, T.R.A.D.E. Policy Brief, November 2005.

2. From the World Bank:- Trade Progress Report: The Doha Development Agenda And Aid For Trade: Hong Kong And Beyond

3. Economic Policy Responses to Preference Erosion: From Trade as Aid to Aid for Trade by Bernard Hoekman and Susan Prowse

4. Aid for Trade: A report for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton

5.From Oxfam International: Scaling up aid for trade: how to support poor countries to trade their way out of poverty

April 2006

The intention in this section is to bring recent publications in selected trade themes to the attention of users of this website on a monthly basis.This month's selection is on trade in agriculture.

1. From the CAFOD trade justice campaign: Dumping on the Poor , The Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development by Duncan Green and Matthew Griffith

2. From the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa: Agriculture and the World Trade Organization - 10 Year On by Ron Sandrey

3. From the World Bank: Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda by Kym Anderson and Will Martin

4. From the Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development: Tackling Trade in Agriculture

5. From Trade and Regional Integration Division (UNECA): Emerging Issues and Concerns of African Countries in the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Doha Round by Patrick N. Osakwe

March 2006

The intention in this section is to bring recent publications in selected trade themes to the attention of users of this website on a monthly basis.This month's selection is related to WTO Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) negotiations.

1.From the World Trade Organization:Industrial Tariff Liberalization and the Doha Development Agenda by Marc Bacchetta and Bijit Bora

2.From University of Nottingham: Making NAMA Work: Supporting Adjustment and Development by Chris Milner

3.From the South Centre: Revenue Implications of WTO NAMA Tariff Reduction

4. From UNCTAD: Trick or Treat? Development opportunities and challenges in the WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs by Santiago Fernandez de Córdoba, Sam Laird and David Vanzetti

5.From the South Centre:Why Developing Countries Need Tariffs? How WTO NAMA Negotiations Could Deny Developing Countries’ Right to a Future by Ha-Joon Chang

February 2006

The intention in this section is to bring recent publications in selected trade themes to the attention of users of this website on a monthly basis. This month's selection is thematic and related to trade preferences.

1. From the African Trade Policy Centre:Trade Preference and Africa: The State of Play and the Issues at Stake by Andrew Mold

2.From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: Erosion of Preferences for The Least Developed Countries: Assessment of Effects and Mitigating Options

3. From World Trade Organization Secretariat: Multilateral Solutions to the Erosion of Non-Reciprocal Preferences in NAMA by Patrick Low, Roberta Piermartini and Jurgen Richtering

4. From the International Monetary Fund: Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion? by Mary Amiti and John Romalis

January 2006

This month's selection is thematic and related to the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models used for calculating the potential gains from trade.

1. From the World Trade Organization Secretariat: "Demystifying Modelling Methods for Trade Policy" by Roberta Piermartini and Robert Teh

2. From the Global Development and Environment Institute, "The Shrinking Gains from Trade: A Critical Assessment of Doha Round Projections" by Frank Ackerman

3. From the African Trade Policy Centre: "Unrestricted Market Access for sub-Saharan Africa: Important Benefits with Little Cost to the QUAD" by Hakim Ben Hammouda, Stephen Karingi and Romain Perez.

4. From the World Bank: "What is at Stake: The Relative Importance of Import Barriers, Export Subsidies and Domestic Support" by Thomas W. Hertel and Roman Keeney

5. From the World Bank: "Estimating the Benefits of Trade Reform: Why Numbers Change" by Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

1. Where are we in the Doha Round. A publication by the International Institute of Sustainable Development
http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?pno=721

2. Conspiracy of Silence:old and new directions on commodities. A publication by Oxfam.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade
/conf_conspiracy.htm

3. Bound and tied. The development impacts of industrial trade liberalization negotiations at the World Trade Organization. A publication by ActionAid.
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/wps/content/documents
/wto_nama.pdf