A New Model for ASEAN Integration
The ASEAN bloc has been extremely successful over the first 50 years of its life. The 10 countries have successfully forged a community of nations that co-exist peacefully. This peace and...
Modernizing international rules, national policies and behind-the-border trade facilitation strategies with the aim of strengthening trade and investment flows.
Although commerce has historically helped lift hundreds of millions out of poverty, many today feel left behind, while business faces uncertainty. Others question whether global production and consumption systems can be aligned with sustainability objectives.
Our Platform works with a range of stakeholders to inform business and policy debate on critical trade and investment issues. We drive practical collaborative steps for growth and development.
The Platform currently focuses on trade tensions, digital trade, investment and trade facilitation, and global tax and competition cooperation.
The ASEAN bloc has been extremely successful over the first 50 years of its life. The 10 countries have successfully forged a community of nations that co-exist peacefully. This peace and...
The era of digitalization requires enterprises to rethink many aspects of their business models. Several enterprises in global trade have moved their digitalization focus toward the ecosy...
Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a key feature of the trade and investment landscape, with over half of world goods imports consisting of intermediates. These networks enhance econo...
ASEAN is the fastest growing Internet market in the world. With 125,000 new users coming onto the Internet every day, the ASEAN digital economy is projected to grow significantly, adding ...
3D printing, the key enabler for additive manufacturing, is a technique that offers unique benefits over conventional manufacturing, including greater design freedom, novel geometries, de...
The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation – jointly led by the Centre for International Private Entreprise, International Chamber of Commerce and World Economic Forum, in cooperation wit...
Private sector-led international investment is crucial to realizing both global development goals and corporate growth. However, societal unease with international investment is growing a...
How can we ensure technology drives new trade opportunities and spreads the gains widely? The Fourth Industrial Revolution – driven by rapid technological change and digitalization – has ...
In January 2019, the Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment outlined four potential scenarios for the future of global trade and investment. This briefing paper takes...
Geopolitical tensions have shaken business confidence, leading to decreased global investment flows. This briefing paper by the Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment...
E-commerce in Africa is well underway, but it has potential to grow, creating new jobs and driving sustainable development. E-commerce stakeholders from within and beyond the continent ha...
Trade costs – the costs of moving cargo from one country to another – are a leading constraint for companies wanting to engage in trade. The development of trade single windows, a one-sto...
This paper highlights the disconnect between the modern global economy and an outdated international tax framework and provides some suggestions for how tax policy could better promote su...
Anti-competitive behaviour can affect the smooth functioning of global value chains (GVCs) in different ways and at various stages. The international nature of production networks, multin...
With new data revealing the extent of services’ contribution to global value chains, there has been greater policy interest in what drives services competitiveness. This paper traces the ...
Given the important role of multinational enterprises (MNEs), attracting foreign direct investment is a key concern for countries keen to join value chains. This paper explains why increa...
This paper examines two questions that arise at the intersection of environmental sustainability and global value chains. The first relates to trade and other barriers to the smooth funct...
The Global Value Chain Policy Series was launched in 2018 by the World Economic Forum’s System Initiative on Shaping the Future of International Trade and Investment. It consists of brief...
Technology has altered the way consumers interact with payment systems. The Internet, digitization, shifting consumer preferences and, in some cases, regulatory reform have accelerated th...
Paperless trade refers to the digitization of information flows required to support goods and services crossing borders. Transforming what was traditionally a paper-based documentation sy...
This White Paper aims to build the knowledge of current e-transaction and e-signature rules. It evaluates how these apply in national and international commercial contexts, and bridges pe...
This white paper will present a view of legal and regulatory structures in the context of trade financing, using the recent example of correspondent banking as a case study that highlight...
Co-published by the World Economic Forum and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, the Report features the Enabling Trade Index, which evaluates 136 economies based on their capaci...
World trade has experienced a significant slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis. Over this period, the global ratio of trade expansion to income growth has halved. An effective global ...
