"Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further multilateral trade liberalization. "Less preferred" countries are increasingly concerned about the discrimination they confront, while "more preferred" developing countries worry that WTO-based liberalization of trade...

World Bank Group President David Malpass highlighted that in the first year of the pandemic, the World Bank Group committed USD 180 billion to help countries respond to the health, economic, and social impacts of the pandemic. The Bank authorized USD 12 billion to help countries access and...