Trade and Investment Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)


 
Trade Finance Infrastructure Development Handbook
for Economies in Transition (ST/ESCAP/2374)



CONTENTS Page
 
Preface
Abbreviations
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ix

I. 

II. 

III. 


IV. 

V.  


VI. 

VII. 

VIII. 

IX.  


An introduction to trade finance

Trade finance methods and instruments: an overview

Trade finance methods and instruments: legal issues
and conventions


Structured trade and commodity financing

Trade finance and the macroeconomic environment:
pointers


Institutions for trade finance development

Payment system development

E-trade finance infrastructure development

Towards a framework for trade finance infrastructure
development


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37


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85

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Last updated: 30 September 2005