Bringing Down the Barriers -

Charting a Dynamic Export Development Agenda

Country Papers

Country	Title	Link to document	Size
Argentina	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Argentina.pdf	58 KB
Bangladesh	Building Competitive Business Environments: Building Trade-Related Infrastructure - What Can the Private Sector Do?	Bangladesh.pdf	68 KB
Belize	Building Institutional Capacities: Finding the Right Focus - Gearing Up for Export Success	Belize.pdf	51 KB
Benin	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Benin.pdf	41 KB
Bolivia	Bringing Down the Barriers - Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Bolivia.pdf	210 KB
Bolivia	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Bolivia1.pdf	185 KB
Botswana	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Botswana.pdf	46 KB
Cambodia	Bringing Down the Barriers - Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Cambodia.pdf	40 KB
Costa Rica	Building Institutional Capacities: Finding the Right Focus - Gearing Up for Export Success	Costa Rica.pdf	52 KB
Cote d'Ivoire	Building Markets: Regional Integration - Responding to Necessity	Cote d'Ivoire.pdf	52 KB
Dominica	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Dominica.pdf	51 KB
Dominican Republic	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Dominican Rep.pdf	186 KB
Ecuador	Building Markets: Strategic Alliances: Win-Win Opportunities?	Ecuador.pdf	55 KB
El Salvador	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	El Salvador.pdf	62 KB
Fiji	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Fiji.pdf	76 KB
Ghana	Building Institutional Capacities: Beyond Politics - Making Trade Support Institutions Effective	Ghana.pdf	53 KB
Grenada	Building Competitive Business Environments: Bringing Down the Barriers - Getting It Right at Home First	Grenada.pdf	89 KB
Guatemala	Bringing Down the Barriers: Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Guatemala.pdf	29 KB
Honduras	Shifts in the Trade Agenda: What Will Be the Consequences for Developing Countries?	Honduras.pdf	64 KB
Jamaica	Building Institutional Capacities: Finding the Right Focus - Gearing Up for Export Success	Jamaica.pdf	58 KB
Kazakhstan	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Kazakhstan.pdf	40 KB
Kenya	Building Markets: Regional Integration - Responding to Necessity	Kenya.pdf	78 KB
Latvia	Bringing Down the Barriers - Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Latvia.pdf	40 KB
Madagascar	Bringing Down the Barriers: Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Madagascar.pdf	187 KB
Mauritius	Building Supply-Side Capacities: Finding a Place in Today's Global Value Chains	Mauritius.pdf	187 KB
Mexico	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Mexico.pdf	629 KB
Mexico	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Mexico.pdf	38 KB
Morocco	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Morocco.pdf	41 KB
Nigeria	Building Competitive Business Environments: Bringing Down the Barriers - Getting It Right at Home First	Nigeria.pdf	42 KB
Romania	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Romania.pdf	59 KB
Rwanda	Bringing Down the Barriers - Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Rwanda.pdf	37 KB
Serbia	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Serbia.pdf	59 KB
South Africa	Building Institutional Capacities: Finding the Right Focus - Gearing Up for Export Success	SouthAfrica.pdf	65 KB
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	Building Competitive Business Environments: Bringing Down the Barriers - Getting It Right at Home First	StVinc&Gren.pdf	84 KB
Sudan	Building Competitive Business Environments: Building Trade-Related Infrastructure - What Can the Private Sector Do?	Sudan.pdf	147 KB
Tanzania	Building Competitive Business Environments: Bringing Down the Barriers - Getting it Right at Home First	Tanzania.pdf	47 KB
Tonga	Building Competitive Business Environments: Bringing Down the Barriers - Getting It Right at Home First	Tonga.pdf	45 KB
Trinidad & Tobago	Shifts in the Trade Agenda: What Will Be the Consequences for Developing Countries?	Tri&Tob.pdf	73 KB
Tunisia	Building Supply-Side Capacities: Unleashing the Power of Enterprise - Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Tunisia.pdf	42 KB
Turkey	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Turkey.pdf	51 KB
Uganda	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Uganda.pdf	40 KB
Uruguay	Building Markets: Strategic Alliances: Win-Win Opportunities?	Uruguay.pdf	40 KB
Uzbekistan	Bringing Down the Barriers - Defining the Priorities for Export Development	Uzbekistan.pdf	187 KB
Zimbabwe	Winning National Strategies for Export Development	Zimbabwe.pdf	58 KB

Individual Papers

Country	Author	Title	Link	Size
ITC	WEDF	Trade: What If... New challenges in export development	WEDF Pre-Debate Publication.pdf	241 KB
ITC	MAS	Trends in developing countries’ exports and markets	MAS Report.pdf	1055 KB
Germany	Leonor von Limburg	National Export Development Agendas: 5 Traps and Moving Away from them	5 Traps Limburg.pdf	66 KB
India	Pranav Kumar	Experience with Trade Liberalisation from Select Developing Countries: On the Need to Mainstream Trade into National Development Strategies	Cuts_Strategies paper.pdf	70 KB
India	Neela Mukherjee	Countering NTB’s/Supply Side Constraints by Small and Marginal Producers from Developing Asia: Exports as Vehicle for Poverty Reduction	Mukherjee.pdf	84 KB
India	Anil Bhardwaj	Regional Trade Agreements and SMEs in Developing Countries: Challenges and Options	RTAs Bhardwaj.pdf	204 KB
Nepal	Shiv Raj Bhatt	Building Supply-Side Capacities: Aid for Productive Capacities: What Works, What Does Not? A Nepalese Perspective	Nepal Shiv Raj Bhatt.pdf	55 KB
Nigeria	Chinyemike Torti	Fast Tracking Export Business among African Countries: The Nigerian Export Trading House	Torti_Nigeria.pdf	61 KB
Pakistan	Ahmed Cader	Winning National Strategies for Export Development: How Countries Can Enhance Exports by Focusing on Strategic Country Marketing	Pakistan_Cader.pdf	37 KB
Romania	Magdalena Nitu	Building Institutional Capacities: Beyond Politics - Making Trade Support Institutions Effective	Eximbank Romania paper.pdf	44 KB
South Africa	Gerhard Erasmus	Doing Business in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU): A Brief Analysis of South African Legislation	SACU tralac.pdf	60 MB
Sri Lanka	Subhashini Abeysinghe	Regional Integration: Responding to Necessity? Regional Integration experience of Sri Lanka	Abeysinghe.pdf	214 KB
United Kingdom	Alan Reynolds	Building Institutional Capacities: Beyond Politics - Making Trade Support Institutions Effective	Reynolds.pdf	152 KB
United Kingdom	Peter Ryan	Building Supply-Side Capacities: Finding a Place in Today’s Global Value Chains	Ryan.pdf	45 KB
USA	Mark Stansbury	Aid for Trade – The Private Sector Perspective	Aid4Trade_Stansbury.pdf	47 KB

Highlights

18.03.2013
Survey: WEDF 2012 yields new business contacts for 80% of delegates
Participants at the World Export Development Forum say it is a good place to gain new insights and expand their business networks.
08.01.2013
Plenary sessions prove most popular at WEDF 2012
Participants at the World Export Development Forum rate the most engaging sessions.
08.01.2013
WEDF hailed as informative and engaging
World Export Development Forum participants have their say on event.
01.12.2012
New dynamics in global trade
Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia, opened the 13th World Export Development Forum (WEDF) in Jakarta by urging the 500 participating policymakers, business leaders and trade support institution representatives to ensure that businesses, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), benefit from greater links between growth markets and the rest of the world.
01.12.2012
Growth, innovation and inclusiveness
This autumn the International Trade Centre (ITC) has organized several events to ensure that growth, innovation and inclusion stay on top of the global trade and development agenda.At the World Export Development Forum 2012 (WEDF), held in Jakarta on...
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