Investment Team, Development Research Group' is part of a larger effort in the group to study the links between globalization and …

, implying a fairly high degree of substitutability. Furthermore, changes in trade openness and private sector investment have a …

"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

promising. Although global competition is creating new opportunities for developing countries, harnessing globalization requires … countries: policy barriers in markets abroad; private restraints on competition; and, trade restraints officially sanctioned. …

markets, particularly with the signing Dominican Republic, Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) in 2004 … trade deal. Section two discusses the region's macroeconomic environment, economic growth, sectoral changes, the business … cycles with the US, and overall stability. Section three covers trade, financial and remittances flows, which are …

report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …-income countries by 1 percent. Beyond these direct effects, the war's long-term implications for global trade and investment will …