"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade …

poor countries than among industrial economies. Overall export diversification increases at low levels of development but …"Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a …

enterprises and farmers in export-oriented supply chains and their impact on employment patterns. 5) Review the scope and nature … of ongoing programs of international development agencies to provide technical assistance and other support for capacity …-building in trade-related SPS management in low- and middle-income countries, and draw operational lessons from that experience. 6 …

"This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the … World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the … effects of domestic policies that affect trade costs. Based on a gravity regression framework, the analysis suggests that …

"The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of …

"This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …