the rest of the world …

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 …

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent … are collected according to a newly developed policy classification, consistent with the earlier World Bank database and …

on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade …

integrate faster internally than vis-a-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …. These findings suggest that regional negotiations add the most value when they are focused on areas that are not being …

-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …