the rest of the world …

High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade …

The World Bank Group has sketched six strategic themes to alert us to necessities and opportunities as Fate hurries … the Arab world; and continually upgrading our knowledge and learning.The challenge is to take practical steps, now, that …

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 …

analysis on the BRI corridors; and analysis conducted through World Bank projects involving BRI economies. A key finding is …

Barber B. Conable, President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation addressed the topic of the … importance to development of trade and the need for a full role for developing countries in the negotiations. The latest general …, while their imports fell by 6.5 percent in value terms. New GATT negotiations must be launched to help create a more certain …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …