This note provides an update on the status of Doha negotiations and an outlook on significant non-Doha trade issues … Executive Board was last briefed in October 2008 (World Bank and IMF, 2008). Section III illustrates that notable gains would … come from a Doha conclusion, both from actual new market access and--perhaps more crucially--from the added trade security …

Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries …’ trade policies and their development strategies. However, although greater trade openness promises faster growth for poor … developing countries to choose fuller participation in the world trading system …

Updates the Board on progress in the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda in the run-up to the Hong Kong … SAR Ministerial in December, and presents proposals on aid for trade to be submitted to the Development Committee and …

This paper summarizes recent developments in the Doha Round negotiations, and aid for trade. As requested by the … Development Committee last September, it reviews existing mechanisms for cross-country and regional aid for trade needs. It …

advantage of the Doha Round. In response, Bank and Fund staff prepared a paper on 'The Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade …

, economic recovery, and positive economic growth in the midst of a world financial and economic crisis. …

The paper explores the relationship between trade policy and current accounts. The effect on the current account of a …

This Reference Note introduces guidance on preferential trade agreements (PTAs). In so doing, it responds to the … Trade Policy Issues. Section II provides context for the Fund's work on trade policy, drawing upon the 2009 IEO Evaluation …, the 2005 Review of Fund Work on Trade, and the discussion of the Executive Board on these occasions. Section III reflects …