Kunio Mikuriya of the World Customs Organization discusses how promoting export growth through customs reform and modernization can lead to a reduction in trade-transaction costs and inefficiencies...

Cracking down on corruption and delays on one of East Africa’s busiest transport routes has helped to move goods across borders...

Tackling the excessively high costs of cross-border trade can increase regional economic integration in East Africa, writes Frank Matsaert of TradeMark East Africa...

UNCTAD’s Secretary-General outlines how trade-facilitation measures encourage human and institutional development, and help to bring informal sectors into the formal economy...

Mitigating the impact of climate change that is threatening the livelihoods of tea farmers in Kenya..

During the past decades bilateral and multilateral trade agreements have led to a reduction in tariff-related barriers to global trade. But during the same period the world has experienced a steady rise in the number of non-tariff measures (NTMs)...

In today's world trade, the relative importance of non-tariff measures (NTMs) vis-à-vis tariffs for developing countries' exports has grown significantly...

The League of Arab States has one of the lowest levels of intraregional trade in the world despite preferential market access and significant cultural homogeneity. Trade potential exists, but is as yet untapped...

Development as a global objective for improving the economic well-being of ordinary people is a relatively recent concept. It was first embodied in the Charter of the United Nations with: ’the United Nations shall promote higher standards of living,.....