An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …

simulations for 31 countries suggest that use of this safeguard in line with the proposed World Trade Organization rules would … raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …

economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import …

Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 …