This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses … results suggest that trade is growing slowly not only because of slow growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), but also because …

Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic … growth. This paper aims to quantify the role of weak economic growth and changes in its decomposition in accounting for the … weakness in economic activity, particularly investment, has been the primary restraint on trade growth, accounting for over 80 …

started to impact significantly on SSA growth: one-percent increase in China's GDP per capita leads to 0.02 percent increase … on the SSA's GDP per capita; (ii) oil and investment-goods exporters benefit more from China's growth; (iii) compared to … China's consumption, its investment growth acts as a more important channel in influencing SSA; (iv) exports to China …

relatively accurate forecasts of inflation and output growth …