Knowledge Products
To assist developing countries in better understanding how to negotiate trade agreements, and to make better use of existing agreements in order to deliver more inclusive outcomes, the project developed knowledge products to enhance understanding of preferential trade agreements, as well as providing methodologies on assessing potential impacts.
Summary
- Development Account 9th Tranche (2014-2017): Enhancing the contribution of preferential trade agreements to inclusive and equitable trade [English only]
- Evaluation Report [English only]
Studies and Reports
- Background paper No.1/2017 - Labour Provisions in Asia-Pacific Free Trade Agreements [English only]
- Background paper No.2/2017 - Labour Provisions in Asia-Pacific Free Trade Agreements Part II: Preferential Trade Agreements with labour provisions and labour market outcomes: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific [English only]
- El aporte del comercio justo al desarrollo sostenible [Spanish only]
- Report – Public perception survey on “Enhancing the Contribution of Preferential Trade Agreements to Inclusive and Equitable Trade” [English only]
Country Studies
- Country study No.1 - Review of Bangladesh's Engagement in Preferential Trading Arrangements [English only]
- Country study No.2 - The Economic and Social Impact of Liberalisation through Preferential Trading Agreements in Bangladesh: The case of the Ready-Made Garments and the Leather & Leathergoods Sectors [English only]
- Country study No.3 - Enhancing the Contribution of Preferential Trading Agreements to Inclusive and Equitable Trade: The case of Mongolia [English only]
- Country study No.4 - Gendering in Garment Factories: Lives of Women in Economic Development: the case of Myanmar [English only]
- Posibles efectos económicos y sociales de la profundización de la Unión Aduanera entre Guatemala y Honduras [Spanish only]
- Evaluación de los posibles impactos de un acuerdo comercial entre el Ecuador y la Unión Europea [Spanish only]
- Efectos de un choque exógeno en el comercio sobre el empleo y los salarios de las empresas manufactureras en Colombia [Spanish only]
Books, Handbooks and Manuals
- Analytical Approaches to Evaluating Preferential Trade Agreements [English only]
- Handbook on Policies, Promotion and Facilitation of Foreign Direct Investment for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific [English only]
- A Handbook on Negotiating Development Oriented Intellectual Property Provisions in Trade and Investment Agreements [English only]
- Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2016: The region amid the tensions of globalization [English] [Spanish] [Portugese]
- Manual on foreign trade and trade policy: Basics, classifications and indicators of trade patterns and trade dynamics [English only]
- Deepening Africa-India Trade and Investment Partnership [English] [French]
- Handbook on Negotiating Sustainability Development Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements [English]