Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, is inspired by Belt and Road Initiative, which will improve trade … potential to lower trade costs, increase competitiveness, improve infrastructure, and provide greater connectivity for Asia and …

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

Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, addressed the Commencement about the theme of the challenge of … globalization …

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 …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about the complex and vexing challenges which the world faces …

. Bhutan can benefit from the experience of East Asia and other countries on how to break out of this low investment trap. FDI …

. 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 …

scale. This study, by a team of World Bank Group economists led by Michele Ruta, analyzes the economics of the initiative …