ESCAP to launch report

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will launch the Trade and Investment Report, 2011 on July 25 on the first day of Trade and Investment Week.

The 2011 Report, under the theme Capturing Post Crisis Trade and Investment Opportunities, is an annual report of ESCAP. It is the only publication providing data for a large number of trade performance indicators for most of the 58 members of ESCAP including export and import growth rates, shares in intraregional trade, services trade,

FDI changes, indicators of trade facilitation, tariff levels and number of RTAs and their trade coverage. Analysis of key issues for the region, such as preferential trade agreements, linkage between trade, investment and climate change mitigation policies, centrality of China in the Asian century are featured. In particular, the Report shows how mitigation and adaptation measures associated with climate change can be converted to trade and investment opportunities.