This tenth edition of the directory provides information on over 300 organizations, which are crucial to trade and investment development in the Asia-Pacific region. It is hoped that this directory will continue to be one of the information sources for promoting cooperation among developing countries in the region and also in areas such as joint marketing, exhibitions and other cooperative forms of trade and investment promotion.
The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty looks at the complex relationships between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade, and examines the challenges that poor people face in benefiting from trade opportunities. Written jointly by the World Bank Group and the WTO, the publication examines how trade could make a greater contribution to ending poverty by increasing efforts to lower trade costs, improve the enabling environment, implement trade policy in conjunction with other areas of policy, better manage risks faced by the poor, and improve data used for policy-making.