banks, ministries of finance, major multilateral organizations, and many departments of the World Bank. …

discusses recent developments in global production, trade, inflation, and financial markets, and presents updates of the World …

This is the first Economic Report on Afghanistan by the World Bank in a quarter-century. It is intended to contribute …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. "--World Bank web site …

. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a … powerful poverty-reducing tool given their greater importance in the income of the poor. "--World Bank web site …