represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent … are collected according to a newly developed policy classification, consistent with the earlier World Bank database and …

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent … are collected according to a newly developed policy classification, consistent with the earlier World Bank database and …

integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …. These findings suggest that regional negotiations add the most value when they are focused on areas that are not being …