Documentos e Relatórios

Barrier or Opportunity ? How Trade Regulations Shape Colombian Firms’ Export Strategies (Inglês)

Firms increasingly must contend with trade regulations to access foreign markets. This paper quantifies the relative importance of trade regulations and their heterogeneous effects for Colombian firms...

Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade (Inglês)

Quality regulation has become the dominant instrument of trade policy. Panel evidence shows that regulations classified as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade both increase...

How Countries can Fully Implement the New York Convention : A Critical Tool for Enforcement of International Arbitration Decisions (Inglês)

The year 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the most important international convention in the area of international...

Jordan - Corporate Governance regulations : comparative study (Inglês)

As the importance of Corporate Governance increases, an awareness and understanding of the different relevant regulations becomes of paramount value. The importance and value of Corporate Governance is...

Jordan - Corporate Governance regulations : comparative study (Árabe)

As the importance of Corporate Governance increases, an awareness and understanding of the different relevant regulations becomes of paramount value. The importance and value of Corporate Governance is...

Mauritius - Mauritius First Public Sector Performance Development Policy Loan : P125694 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (Inglês)

Suriname - Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) : Accounting and Auditing (A&A) (Inglês)

This report provides an assessment of the corporate sector accounting, financial reporting, and auditing practices in Suriname, with the aim of assisting the Government of Suriname's efforts to strengthen...

Nicaragua - Diagnostic review of consumer protection in financial services : key findings and recommendations (Vol. 1 of 2) (Espanhol)

In 2010, over 92 percent of the assets in the Nicaraguan financial system were concentrated in the banking sector, while microfinance managed over 5 percent, and all the remaining segments covered less...

Handbook on corporate governance STOCK companies : second names and expanded edition : Прирачник за корпоративно управување во македонските акционерски друштв : Второ именето и дополнето издание (Macedoniano)

News from ICSID Vol. 26, no. 1 (Inglês)

In this issue: Twenty-sixth American Arbitration Association (AAA)/International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)/International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) joint colloquium on international...

A platform for results : measuring public financial management performance in Nepal (Inglês)

Nepal a small South Asian country sandwiched between India and China, has undergone a major political transition following more than a decade of conflict. On May 28, 2008, during the first constituent...

European Community--Sugar : cross-subsidization and the World Trade Organization (Inglês)

An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European Union exports of sugar. Brazil, Thailand, and Australia alleged that the exports have...

Promoting business to business commercial contracts in Vietnam (Inglês)

Business-to-business commercial contracts are good for small and large, private, and state owned firms. These commercial contracts provide important market opportunities for small firms and can improve...

Reforming insolvency systems in Latin America (Inglês)

The note shares conflicting interests hampering insolvency systems reform in Latin America, and aims at assessing legal weaknesses, to propose some common solutions. Most insolvency systems share two prime...

Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform : some new facts (Inglês)

This article compares the statutory and valorem tariff rates (official rates) with the ratio of tariff revenues to import values (collected rates) for Jamaica, Kenya, and Pakistan. It identifies four general...

The meaning of "unfair" in US import policy (Inglês)

This paper concludes that transparency, openness, and objectivity, are important parts of the American ideal of rule of law. Yet these procedural refinements seem to contribute more to the problem than...

International control of subsidies and countervailing duties (Inglês)

The range and number of cases of administered protection in the 1980s suggests that it has begun to play an important role in shaping international trade flows. As most of such cases are brought by the...

Liberalizing trade between developed and developing countries (Inglês)

Despite repeated declarations made by developed country governments of their intention to resist protectionist pressures and to roll back protection in the world trading system, new measures have been...