a country's production and export structure. This can include diversification into new products and trading partners as …Diversification and structural transformation play important roles in influencing the macroeconomic performance of low …-income countries (LICs). Increases in income per capita at early stages of development are typically accompanied by a transformation in …

the benefits of trade liberalization as well as on the obstacles to trade-oriented development …

the IMF and World Bank, in helping to address the constraints that limit development and use of these instruments? …

volatility. Greater economic diversification would unlock job-creating growth, increase resilience to oil price volatility and … key prerequisites for economic diversification …

Diversification of the GCC economies, supported by greater openness to trade and higher foreign investment, can have a … a more competitive business environment, and enhancing productivity. The GCC countries are open to trade, but much less … so to foreign direct investment (FDI). GCC foreign trade has been expanding robustly, but FDI inflows have stalled in …

This Reference Note introduces guidance on preferential trade agreements (PTAs). In so doing, it responds to the … Trade Policy Issues. Section II provides context for the Fund's work on trade policy, drawing upon the 2009 IEO Evaluation …, the 2005 Review of Fund Work on Trade, and the discussion of the Executive Board on these occasions. Section III reflects …

This note provides an update on the status of Doha negotiations and an outlook on significant non-Doha trade issues … come from a Doha conclusion, both from actual new market access and--perhaps more crucially--from the added trade security …

whose financial and institutional development enables them to intermediate capital flows safely. Post-crisis reforms …, including the development of macroprudential policies (MPPs), are helping to strengthen the resilience of financial systems …