, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain much of the …

contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …

The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural … world's population, farmers, agricultural output and total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85 … NRAs by showing two sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set for various regions of the world, the other for …

countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …