Union. The analysis also incorporates new export cost data from the World Bank's Doing Business database, covering document …

income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs is largely unfavorable to the developing world: trade costs are falling …

The authors determine how time delays affect international trade using newly collected World Bank data on the days it …

comprehensive database of PTAs in force and a detailed matrix of world trade. He shows that total trade between PTA partners is a … to one-third of global trade in 2000-02, the latter was between one-sixth and one-tenth of world trade. His gravity model …

sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …

subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …

least resistance from World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries to include trade facilitation in the Doha Round … learned from cross-country experiences, the EU and the World Bank organized two workshops in Dhaka (South Asian countries) and …