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The Growth Blog is a forum intended for policy makers, academics, students, and other interested citizens to engage current practitioners on policies and issues critical to development. This platform was inspired by the series of meetings that the Commission on Growth and Development held around the world during the development of its report.
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'This survey discusses the policy framework in which financial globalization is most likely to prove beneficial for developing countries. The reforms developing countries need to carry out to make their economies safe for international asset trade are the same reforms they need to carry out to curtail the power of entrenched economic interests and liberate the economy’s productive potential.' Maurice Obstfeld, Commission on Growth and Development Working Paper 34, 2008. (PDF, 68 pages.)
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'This paper examines the determinants of remittance behavior for Vietnam using data from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey on internal migrants. It considers how, among other things, the vulnerability of a migrant's life at the destination, their link to relatives back home, and the time spent at the destination affect remittances. The paper finds that migrants act as risk-averse economic agents and send remittances back to the household of origin as part of an insurance exercise in the face of more...
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‘The literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the ESCAP region. This paper use the GTAP model to evaluate the possible impacts of the most recently proposed modality for agricultural trade reform under Doha on the economies of the ESCAP region then compare the results to a benchmark of comprehensive agricultural trade reform. The finding is that the current proposal does no more...
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the trade regimes for Africa that on 1 January 2008 replaced the trade preferences under the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA), the negotiations that remain to be completed and the challenges facing Africa in implementation, some of which require support from Europe . The first part of the paper gives an overview of the initialled agreements, comparing both the texts of the agreements and the liberalization schedules that give details on the com more...
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Agritrade, CTA; Accès au marché : aspects tarifaires et non tarifaires:
Le règlement de l’UE portant sur la lutte contre la pêche INN : un système de certification des captures prévu pour 2010. La crise économique européenne favorise la consommation de poisson bon marché. Quel prix les consommateurs seront-ils susceptibles de payer pour un thon écolabellisé ? Les écolabels rejetés par les représentants de la communauté internationale de la pêche artisanale. Etat des lieux des more...
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Market access, tariff and non-tariff aspects:
The EU is to introduce a new catch-certification scheme. Cheap fish will be favoured by the economic crisis. Eco-labels are being spurned. The Pacific EPA will include global sourcing for fish and fish products. The promise of aquaculture for future supplies has been analysed;
EU-ACP fisheries relations; FPAs:
The EU has introduced a new system regulating EU vessels fishing outside EU waters. The LDRAC has launched a website. The EC is proposin more...
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