Challenges and opportunities for Palestinian external trade (forthcoming, 1997).

Table 3 External trade indicators for developing countries and territories,

Trade is the single most important external source of development financing.

A number of external trade agreements have been negotiated in Africa.

MACROECONOMIC POLICY QUESTIONS TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT EXTERNAL DEBT CRISIS AND DEVELOPMENT

Ms. Lourdes M. Perez, National Directorate of Services for External Trade, Panama

4. Central Asian external trade and transit initiative rebuilding the Silk Road

4. Central Asian external trade and transit initiative rebuilding the silk road

Another feature of the deteriorated Palestinian external trade sector is the almost total concentration of trade with one partner.

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The Monterrey Consensus identifies trade as the single most important external source of development financing.

The Monterrey Consensus identifies trade as the single most important external source of development financing.

(c) Enhance the African trade sector through the adoption of appropriate measures, policies and strategies for the expansion of regional and external trade

IE Singapore is the former Trade Development Board (TDB) that was in charge of promoting Singapore's external trade until its name change in 2002.

These resources could be complemented by external financing through international trade and investment and official development assistance.

Recent trends in trade, external debt and agricultural policies are among the issues covered in the report.

His Excellency The Honourable Petrus Compton, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of Saint Lucia

In accordance with regional agreements, most countries gradually reduced their external tariffs, thus stimulating trade in the region.

Its imports are therefore particularly sensitive to external shocks and the resulting deterioration in the terms of trade.

2. The Committee also had an informal exchange of views and a fruitful debate on recent initiatives in the area of external trade and external debt of least developed countries.

In that regard, external assistance was essential to expand transfer of technology and trade and investment among developing countries.

Nevertheless, they still face substantial difficulties in participating in services trade, and their exports are particularly vulnerable to external shocks.

This is followed by an examination of major aggregate economic developments, with particular focus on the Palestinian external trade sector.

The Acting President I now call on His Excellency Mr. David Oddsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland.

(d) Trade unions in association with an in house or external training agency, for programmes targeting the unemployed in their sector.

20. As for the external situation the terms of trade have deteriorated and there is a structural balance of payments deficit.

While trade was critical to growth, a number of other factors, both internal and external, must be addressed, including the level of ODA, especially in a climate of generally decreasing external finance to developing countries.

Despite the conclusion of various regional and global trade agreements (bilateral and multilateral) over the past decade, the Syrian economy remains protectionist if measured by the percentage of external trade and investment.

Led by an impressive growth in export revenues and a substantial reduction of current account and trade deficits, external indicators improved overall.

The initiative aims at reducing transit costs facing the Central Asian Republics, thereby promoting their external trade and bolstering their economic growth.

Owing to the interplay between changes in trade patterns and those in domestic output, the revival and reorientation of Palestinian external trade is contingent upon improvement in three areas capacity, competitiveness, and accessibility.

The developing countries, especially the least developed ones, remained marginalized from world trade and were more exposed to the impact of external disturbances.

The least developed countries, in particular, with their difficulties in the areas of trade, debt and external support, would benefit from such integration.

With respect to efforts aimed at protecting competition at the level of external trade, he drew attention to Mexico s important anti dumping procedures.

Statement made by the Honourable Berenado Vunibobo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Republic of Fiji, on 18 June 1998

He has served as Economic Policy Adviser to Director General, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as Special Adviser to the United Nations on Globalization and as External Adviser to the World Trade Organization.

The financial sustainability of Trade Points will remain a longer term objective in poorer regions and in the least developed countries, which should continue to benefit from external support to enhance their trade efficiency strategies, including through the establishment and management of Trade Points.

The external debt burden, the decline in development assistance and the deterioration in the terms of trade were the main obstacles created by the external economic environment, which hindered the efforts of developing countries, especially the least developed ones.

To overcome this disadvantage, a complex chain of trading relationships has developed, which uses locally exploited gold as the main currency for external trade.

Disruptions of internal economic activities and external trade have led to loss of job opportunities for Palestinians within the occupied territory and in Israel.

As articulated by NEPAD, the channels for external resource flows to African countries are official development assistance (ODA), debt relief, trade and foreign investment.

The third will focus on the trade and external financial relations of the economies in transition and will replace the Economic Bulletin for Europe

The Acting President (interpretation from Spanish) I now call on His Excellency Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland.

IV. Statement made by the Honourable Berenado Vunibobo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade of the Republic of Fiji, on 18 June 1998

The representative of Cuba acknowledged that Africa was a weak continent, which would never reach its full potential in terms of trade without external support.