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Executive summary
The international community is set to define the post-2015 development framework
and sustainable development goals wherein trade is expected to play a key catalytic role.
Experience suggests that the transmission of efficiency gains from trade integration to
broad-based development is not automatic and remains to be established with conscious
policy efforts. This will require coherent and integrated policy intervention at the
macroeconomic and individual sectoral levels supportive of structural transformation to
build broad-based productive capacities with possibility for diversification, technological
upgrading and job creation.
Such changing policy needs and priorities need to be supported by an enabling
economic environment, of which an open, transparent, inclusive, non-discriminatory and
rules-based multilateral trading and financial system remains an integral part. Despite
recurrent setbacks, multilateralism remains a global public good to be supported and
upheld. The centrality and credibility of the multilateral trading system is increasingly
under stress as global trade governance becomes fragmented with the increased prevalence
of regional and plurilateral processes. While the ninth Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization (WTO) (3–6 December 2013, Bali, Indonesia) adopted a package of
decisions, including the Agreement on Trade Facilitation, difficulties in implementing the
Bali package have again cast uncertainties over the prospects for the post-Bali work to
conclude the Doha Round. Efforts are needed to ensure that multilateral and other
processes can create an enabling environment for sustainable development.
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