countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …

World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the …

analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the …

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 …