Trade monitoring
Introduction
The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) was first established on a trial basis by the GATT contracting parties in April 1989. The Mechanism became a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization under the Marrakesh Agreement which established the WTO in January 1995.
Cadre intégré renforcé
En 2011, le Cadre intégré renforcé (CIR) a continué à jouer un rôle clé en aidant certains des pays les plus pauvres à s'intégrer dans le système commercial mondial. Depuis qu'il est entré en activité en 2009, 40 pays ont obtenu une aide du CIR pour renforcer leurs institutions commerciales. Le CIR reçoit le soutien de 23 donateurs; au 31 décembre 2011, les annonces de contributions s'élevaient à 235 millions de dollars EU et les contributions à environ 155 millions de dollars EU.
Acuerdo sobre Contratación Pública
El Comité de Contratación Pública administra el ACP. En 2009 celebró tres reuniones formales y varias reuniones informales centradas en cuestiones relativas a las negociaciones y la adhesión. Además, esas reuniones dieron a las 14 Partes en el Acuerdo (que comprende en total 41 Miembros de la OMC) la oportunidad de intercambiar información y perspectivas sobre las medidas de contratación nacionales en relación con la crisis económica, con lo que se puso de relieve la función de salvaguardia contra el proteccionismo que cumple el ACP.
Report by the Dominican Republic
One year after its previous Trade Policy Review in 2002, the Dominican Republic suffered one of the most serious economic and financial crises of its history following the bankruptcy of three banks owing to a combination of fraud, excessive loans to related parties, and poor management of public finances. This crisis led to high inflation, a sharp depreciation in the exchange rate, capital flight, a twofold increase in the public debt in the space of a single year, and a slowdown in the country’s economic growth. The Government’s commitment to drawing up and implementing an economic programme aimed at re-establishing fiscal, monetary and financial discipline and to introducing structural reforms in a number of areas contributed to a marked and rapid recovery of the economy and of international reserves, and hence lower inflation and interest rates, a more stable exchange rate, and the recovery and consolidation of economic growth.