Trade & industrial policy | Tulip

TRADE & INDUSTRIAL POLICY

To maximize the benefits of trade, developing countries must be proactive and strategic. Moreover, governments must ensure coherency between trade and industrial policies. TULIP’s activities at the intersection of trade and industrial policy focus on the following areas:

Developing a methodology to tailor industrial policy to the 21st century

Strategically aligning trade and industrial policies

Greening industrial policies in developing countries

Developing Sustainable special economic zones

PROJECTS

International Trade Centre

Developing Sri Lanka’s e-Commerce negotiating strategy

Analyzing ways in which Sri Lanka can strategically negotiate trade agreements to building a digital enabling environment.

International Trade Centre (ITC)

Project for Sri Lanka:

TULIP is advising Sri Lanka as it develops its new industrial policy. In particular, TULIP's advise focuses on emerging trends in industrial policy - such as on green industry and digitalization - and the implications thereof for Sri Lanka's new industrial policy framework.

United Nations Environment Programme

Green Industrial policy workshop for Guyana

Developed and delivered a 3-day course on Green Industrial Policy and Trade for government officials in Guyana.

Click here to read an article about the event.

United Nations Environment Programme

Teaching module on trade and industrial policy

TULIP developed and taught teaching a training module on trade and green industrial policy for government officials in developing countries.

Click here to listen to the podcast accompanying the course.

PUBLICATIONS

"Where Trade and Industrial Policy Converge: How Developing Countries Can Utilize Trade Preferences to Generate Sustainable, Local Growth in the Garment Sector"

"Inclusive Industrialization: the interplay between investment incentives and SME promotion policies in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Trade, Development, and Industrial Policy in Africa: the case for a pragmatic approach to optimizing policy coherence between industrial policy and WTO policy space.