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Women’s Economic Empowerment 妇女经济赋权
Pub Date : 2019-05-20 DOI: 10.30875/080465B6-EN
A. D. Boghossian
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building productive capacity; and trade-related adjustment. The WTO-led Initiative works with a broad cross-section of stakeholders to: highlight needs (of developing and least-developed countries and regional organizations), mobilize resources (including donors, international financial institutions and other international organizations) and monitor impacts and effectiveness (with OECD and other international organizations). Through Aid for Trade, the WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment which identified Aid for Trade as a key instrument to assist members in "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment through Aid for Trade * Donors and partner countries have been devoting increasing attention to gender dimensions in Aid for Trade. Both groups have gradually and increasingly integrated gender into their Aid for Trade objectives. They are now at par. The 2019 Monitoring and Evaluation Exercise reveals that women's economic empowerment is now high on both donors and partner countries agendas. Today, 84% of donors' aid-for-trade strategy and 85% of partner countries national or regional development strategy seek to promote women's economic empowerment. * The main target group of gender related Aid for Trade is women entrepreneurs. * While gender is now fully part of members aid-for-trade objectives, it has not been fully integrated in their aid for trade priorities. This disconnection between objectives and priorities could explain the difficulty in assessing the real impact of aid for trade on women's economic empowerment. This also shows the challenges to translate objectives into effective programming. Aid for Trade flows confirm this trend
贸易援助支持发展中国家和最不发达国家建设其贸易能力,并通过将市场准入机会转化为市场存在来增加其出口。它通过解决四个关键领域来实现这一目标:贸易政策和法规;经济基础设施;建设生产能力;以及与贸易有关的调整。世界贸易组织领导的倡议与广泛的利益攸关方合作,以:突出需求(发展中国家和最不发达国家以及区域组织),调动资源(包括捐助者、国际金融机构和其他国际组织),监测影响和有效性(与经合组织和其他国际组织)。通过“促贸易援助”,世贸组织一直把重点放在妇女上,目的是培养她们的贸易能力,并利用贸易作为促进她们经济发展的工具。性别平等是促贸援助的固有组成部分。这也反映在《布宜诺斯艾利斯贸易和妇女经济赋权宣言》中,该宣言将贸易援助确定为协助成员“分析、设计和实施更具性别敏感性的贸易政策”的关键工具。通过贸易援助增强妇女经济权能的三个关键事实*捐助国和伙伴国越来越重视贸易援助中的性别层面。这两个群体都逐渐和越来越多地将性别问题纳入其促进贸易援助目标。2019年监测和评估工作显示,妇女经济赋权目前已成为捐助国和伙伴国议程上的重要议题。今天,84%的捐助国贸易援助战略和85%的伙伴国国家或区域发展战略寻求促进妇女经济赋权。*与性别有关的贸易援助的主要目标群体是女企业家。*虽然性别现在已完全成为成员贸易援助目标的一部分,但尚未完全纳入其贸易援助优先事项。目标和优先事项之间的这种脱节可以解释在评估贸易援助对妇女经济赋权的实际影响方面的困难。这也显示了将目标转化为有效方案拟订的挑战。贸易援助流动证实了这一趋势
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引用次数: 53
How WTO Commitments Tame Uncertainty WTO承诺如何驯服不确定性
Pub Date : 2019-04-24 DOI: 10.30875/d1a7253c-en
A. Jakubik, R. Piermartini
This paper studies how WTO rules and flexibilities shape its members' trade policy responses to import shocks. Guided by a cost benefit analysis model and using a unique database of tariff bindings for all WTO countries over the 1996-2011 period, we show that WTO commitments affect members' trade policy. More stringent bindings reduce the likelihood of responding to import shocks by raising tariffs and increase the likelihood of contingent measures. We argue that this reduces overall trade policy uncertainty. In a counterfactual scenario where WTO members can arbitrarily increase tariffs they are 4.5 times more likely to do so than under current bindings.
本文研究了WTO规则和灵活性如何影响其成员应对进口冲击的贸易政策。在成本效益分析模型的指导下,并使用1996-2011年期间所有WTO成员国关税约束的独特数据库,我们表明WTO承诺影响成员的贸易政策。更严格的约束降低了通过提高关税来应对进口冲击的可能性,并增加了采取应急措施的可能性。我们认为,这降低了整体贸易政策的不确定性。在一个反事实的情况下,世贸组织成员可以任意提高关税,他们这样做的可能性是目前约束下的4.5倍。
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引用次数: 8
Product Patents and Access to Innovative Medicines in a Post-TRIPS era 后trips时代的产品专利和创新药物的获取
Pub Date : 2019-04-04 DOI: 10.30875/4180e4e0-en
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引用次数: 0
Investment Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Evolution and Current Trends 优惠贸易协定中的投资条款:演变与当前趋势
Pub Date : 2018-12-14 DOI: 10.30875/ECC9B298-EN
J. Crawford, Barbara R. Kotschwar
Our analysis covers 230 PTAs of which 111 contain substantive provisions on investment. Over the past 60 years or so, States have created an extensive network of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) that govern and protect international investment. The number of BITs concluded annually continues to increase, although this rate has tapered off over the past decade. The rise in the number of BITs has been accompanied by an increasing trend among States to include investment provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs). In order to capture this trend we constructed a matrix of 57 investment provisions located in the investment chapter. The analysis covers provisions on scope and definition of the investment framework, investment liberalization and protection, social and regulatory goals, institutional framework, and dispute settlement. We find that the scope and depth of investment provisions has increased over time though at a modest rate. Regional groupings of PTAs demonstrate a number of common characteristics particularly with regard to the scope and definitions of the investment framework and the provisions relating to investment liberalization and protection. Host-state flexibilities are ensured in a majority of PTAs through the inclusion of a broad "right to regulate" provision. Provisions aimed at the protection of the environment occur in more than three quarters of PTAs.
我们的分析涵盖230项贸易协定,其中111项载有关于投资的实质性规定。在过去60年左右的时间里,各国建立了一个管理和保护国际投资的广泛的双边投资条约网络。每年缔结的双边投资协定数量继续增加,尽管这一速度在过去十年中有所减少。在双边投资协定数目增加的同时,各国越来越倾向于在优惠贸易协定中列入投资条款。为了捕捉这一趋势,我们在投资章节中构建了一个包含57条投资条款的矩阵。该分析涵盖了投资框架的范围和定义、投资自由化和保护、社会和监管目标、制度框架和争端解决等方面的规定。我们发现,投资条款的范围和深度随着时间的推移而增加,尽管速度不大。自由贸易协定的区域分组显示出若干共同特点,特别是在投资框架的范围和定义以及与投资自由化和保护有关的规定方面。通过纳入广泛的“管制权”条款,在大多数贸易协定中确保东道国的灵活性。四分之三以上的协定都有旨在保护环境的规定。
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引用次数: 7
E-commerce and Developing Country-SME Participation in Global Value Chains 电子商务与发展中国家中小企业参与全球价值链
Pub Date : 2018-11-13 DOI: 10.30875/ec5f0f21-en
Rainer Lanz, K. Lundquist, Grégoire Mansio, A. Maurer, Robert R. Teh
Two far-reaching developments have increased the trade opportunities for SMEs in developing countries. Firstly, the rise of the internet and advances in ICT have reduced trade-related information and communication costs. Secondly, the international fragmentation of production has increased the opportunities for SMEs to specialize in narrow activities at various stages along the production chain. Using firm-level data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, we test whether digital connectivity, as captured by whether a firm has a website or not, facilitates the participation of manufacturing SMEs from developing countries in global value chains (GVCs). We find robust evidence that digital connectivity facilitates the participation of manufacturing SMEs in GVCs in terms of both backward and forward linkages. SMEs with a website tend to import a higher share of their inputs used for production and export a higher share of their sales as compared to SMEs without a website. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the effect of having a website on GVC participation is stronger for SMEs than for large firms. Beyond digital connectivity at the firm level, we also assess the role of a country's ICT infrastructure in facilitating GVC participation of SMEs. We find that SMEs tend to participate more in GVCs in countries where a higher share of the population has fixed broadband subscriptions. This result also holds if we control for other country-level factors such as the quality of logistics services, rule of law and access to finance. Our findings can provide guidance for policy makers in developing countries about the importance of investing in ICT infrastructure, creating a regulatory and policy environment conducive to e-commerce, and providing SMEs and workers with the digital skills and knowledge to use ICT technologies efficiently.
两项影响深远的发展增加了发展中国家中小企业的贸易机会。首先,互联网的兴起和信息通信技术的进步降低了与贸易有关的信息和通信成本。其次,生产的国际碎片化增加了中小企业在生产链的各个阶段专门从事狭窄活动的机会。利用世界银行《企业调查》中的企业层面数据,我们检验了数字连通性(通过企业是否拥有网站来衡量)是否有助于发展中国家制造业中小企业参与全球价值链。我们发现强有力的证据表明,数字互联互通有助于制造业中小企业参与全球价值链,无论是向后联系还是向前联系。与没有网站的中小企业相比,有网站的中小企业往往进口更高份额的生产投入,出口更高份额的销售。此外,研究结果表明,与大型企业相比,拥有网站对中小企业参与全球价值链的影响更大。除了企业层面的数字连接,我们还评估了一个国家的信息通信技术基础设施在促进中小企业参与全球价值链方面的作用。我们发现,在拥有固定宽带用户比例较高的国家,中小企业往往更多地参与全球价值链。如果我们控制其他国家层面的因素,如物流服务质量、法治和融资渠道,这一结果也成立。我们的研究结果可以为发展中国家的政策制定者提供指导,让他们了解投资信息通信技术基础设施、创造有利于电子商务的监管和政策环境以及为中小企业和工人提供有效使用信息通信技术的数字技能和知识的重要性。
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引用次数: 7
Addressing Tensions and Avoiding Disputes 应对紧张,避免争端
Pub Date : 2018-10-31 DOI: 10.30875/09839801-en
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引用次数: 0
The “China Shock” Revisited “中国冲击”重现
Pub Date : 2018-10-26 DOI: 10.30875/CBF82ACD-EN
A. Jakubik, Victor Stolzenburg
We exploit a decomposition of gross trade flows into their value added components to reassess the relationship between increased imports from China and manufacturing jobs in US local labour markets following the seminal paper of Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013, ADH). Decomposed trade flows enable us to address identification and measurement issues inherent to gross trade data. In particular, it allows us to remove US value added in Chinese exports from the exposure measure which is mechanically correlated with the dependent variable and overstates the volume of the trade shock. In addition, the decomposition permits to correct for double counting, to remove primary and services inputs in manufacturing exports, and to assign competition to the upstream industry that supplied the value added rather than the final exporting industry. This further reduces the volume of the shock and improves the accuracy of the import exposure measure. Consequently, we find considerable differences in the pattern of regions that are most affected by the trade shock and show that imports from China can explain less of the decline in US manufacturing than what gross trade data would suggest. We then separate the shock into a China-driven domestic reform and a thirdcountry-driven value chain component, and find in line with ADH that the smaller, but still negative labour market effects are indeed China driven. Finally, we observe that the negative effects identified in ADH are not present in the 2008-2014 period, as labour market adjustment has largely concluded. The long time needed for adjustment may have been prolonged by the evolution of China's comparative advantage.
根据Autor, Dorn和Hanson (2013, ADH)的开创性论文,我们利用贸易总额分解为其增值部分来重新评估从中国进口增加与美国当地劳动力市场制造业就业之间的关系。分解的贸易流使我们能够处理总贸易数据固有的识别和度量问题。特别是,它允许我们将中国出口的美国增加值从风险度量中剔除,这与因变量机械相关,并夸大了贸易冲击的规模。此外,分解允许纠正重复计算,消除制造业出口中的初级和服务投入,并将竞争分配给提供增值的上游产业,而不是最终出口产业。这进一步减少了冲击的体积,提高了进口暴露测量的准确性。因此,我们发现受贸易冲击影响最大的地区的模式存在相当大的差异,并表明,与贸易总额数据所显示的相比,来自中国的进口对美国制造业下滑的解释更少。然后,我们将冲击分为中国驱动的国内改革和第三国驱动的价值链部分,并发现与ADH一致,较小但仍然是负面的劳动力市场影响确实是中国驱动的。最后,我们观察到,在2008-2014年期间,由于劳动力市场调整基本上已经结束,ADH中确定的负面影响并不存在。调整所需的漫长时间可能因中国比较优势的演变而延长。
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引用次数: 4
How Regional Trade Agreements Deal with Disputes Concerning their TBT Provisions? 区域贸易协定如何处理技术性贸易壁垒条款争议?
Pub Date : 2018-09-14 DOI: 10.30875/9700E22A-EN
A. Molina, V. Khoroshavina
Our analysis covers 260 RTAs, of which 200 include at least one provision on TBT. We find that in general disputes on TBT provisions arising under RTAs are not treated differently from other type of RTA disputes. Fifteen per cent of RTAs with TBT provisions include provisions that apply exclusively to the resolution of TBT disputes and do so in general to favour the WTO dispute settlement mechanism over that of the RTA; only in one RTA - NAFTA - do the parties provide under some conditions for the exclusive use of the RTA DSM for certain types of TBT disputes. In the remaining RTAs, the parties do not provide for a specific way of dealing with TBT disputes and apply instead the general dispute settlement (DS) provisions under the RTA. Under the general DS provisions, the parties do not give exclusivity to one forum, with one exception EU-Chile RTA, but allow instead for the selection of the forum in case of jurisdictional overlapping and in accordance with certain rules. RTAs with such a forum-choice clause account for 55% of the RTAs with TBT provisions, while 24% do not provide for any guidelines in the case of jurisdictional overlapping, which can be problematic, and 5% do not have their own dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), so that in the event of a dispute over the same (or similar) obligation under the RTA and the WTO, the WTO DSM would be the only possible forum.
我们的分析涵盖了260个区域贸易协定,其中200个至少包含一项关于技术性贸易壁垒的规定。我们发现,一般而言,在区域贸易协定下产生的关于技术性贸易壁垒条款的争端与其他类型的区域贸易协定争端并没有区别对待。15%有技术性贸易壁垒条款的区域贸易协定包括专门适用于解决技术性贸易壁垒争端的条款,而且这样做一般是为了有利于世贸组织争端解决机制,而不是区域贸易协定的争端解决机制;只有在一个区域贸易协定——北美自由贸易协定——中,各方在某些条件下规定专门使用区域贸易协定DSM来解决某些类型的技术性贸易壁垒争端。在其余的区域贸易协定中,各方没有规定处理技术性贸易壁垒争端的具体方式,而是采用区域贸易协定下的一般争端解决规定。根据一般DS条款,除欧盟-智利区域贸易协定外,当事各方不给予某一仲裁机构排他性,而是允许在管辖权重叠的情况下根据某些规则选择仲裁机构。在有技术性贸易壁垒条款的区域贸易协定中,有这样一个论坛选择条款的区域贸易协定占55%,而24%的区域贸易协定在管辖权重叠的情况下没有提供任何指导方针,这可能会产生问题,5%的区域贸易协定没有自己的争端解决机制(DSM),因此,如果在区域贸易协定和世贸组织下的相同(或类似)义务发生争端,世贸组织DSM将是唯一可能的论坛。
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引用次数: 0
Digital Connectivity & E-Commerce 数码连接及电子商贸
Pub Date : 2018-06-21 DOI: 10.30875/64B86EED-EN
Theo Mbise, Sainabou Taal, Michael Roberts, F. Lammersen
Digital networks are an increasingly critical component of global trade. In 2017, the Global Review of Aid for Trade highlighted the importance of accessible and affordable connections for trade connectivity. Drawing extensively on information harvested in the Monitoring and Evaluation exercise in preparation for the Review, this paper analyses aid for trade for digital connectivity and e-commerce. Also presented in this paper are the types of issues and challenges faced in cross-border electronic transactions - an area in which demand for support is set to grow. The paper also surveys flows reported to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Creditor Reporting System. Funds disbursed to digital connectivity amounted to US$6.6 billion in concessional financing and US$8.3 billion in non-concessional financing in the period 2006-2016. The top providers of financing were the European Union, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the World Bank Group. The paper also highlights the various methodological difficulties encountered, and explains the need to further refine reporting definitions so as to better capture financing flows to digital connectivity and to understand how aid for trade is being used to leverage private sector financing for ICT. The analysis concludes by reviewing the catalytic role that aid for trade is playing in mobilizing private sector financing. Research for the 2017 Global Review suggests that both developing countries and donors view ICT connectivity as an area where demand for financing will grow in future.
数字网络是全球贸易日益重要的组成部分。2017年,《促贸援助全球评估》强调了可获得和负担得起的连接对于贸易互联互通的重要性。本文广泛借鉴了为准备《审查报告》而开展的监测和评估工作所收集的信息,分析了数字互联互通和电子商务对贸易的帮助。本文还介绍了跨境电子交易中面临的各种问题和挑战——这一领域对支持的需求将不断增长。该文件还调查了向经济合作与发展组织债权人报告制度报告的资金流动情况。2006-2016年期间,用于数字互联互通的优惠融资达66亿美元,非优惠融资达83亿美元。最大的融资提供者是欧盟、日本、韩国、英国和世界银行集团。该文件还强调了在方法上遇到的各种困难,并解释了进一步完善报告定义的必要性,以便更好地捕捉数字连接的资金流,并了解如何利用贸易援助来利用私营部门的信息通信技术融资。分析最后审查了贸易援助在调动私营部门资金方面所起的促进作用。《2017年全球评论》的研究表明,发展中国家和捐助国都将ICT连接视为未来融资需求增长的领域。
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引用次数: 2
“Agricultural Products” and “Fishery Products” in the GATT and WTO 关贸总协定和世贸组织中的“农产品”和“渔业产品”
Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.30875/ad6a3847-en
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