cargo generated within the Central American Common Market (SIECA, 2004). Intra-regional trade is much more important in … the negative impact of the distance to the markets on trade. A gravity model of trade showed that the negative effect of … distance1 on total intra-regional exports is 77 percent higher in Central America than in the European Union (World Bank, 2010 …

has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on trade facilitation over the past several years to catalogue data …"Trade costs and nontariff barriers are at the forefront of discussions on competitiveness and expanding trade … trade costs and barriers, much more is needed. In order to assess progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals …

standards on trade costs. They select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too … standards on trade"--World Bank web site … sizes around the world. Raballand and Aldaz-Carroll examine the case of pallets to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of …

economic borders and enter world markets to take advantage of scale and trade in specialized products. World Development Report … and high mortality persist among the world???s bottom billion, trapped without access to global markets, even as others …

Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project "Urbanization and the Quality of Life."--World Bank web site …

(World Bank, 2022)'. It provides more detail on, and analysis of, natural hazards in the Pacific affecting port … Note looks particularly at the experiences of 12 World Bank member countries, referred to collectively as the PIC12 …