The decision not to launch negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on three of the Singapore Issues in the …

barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world's poorest people, as are barriers to worker … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic … required to rank this set of opportunities against those aimed at addressing the world's other key challenges as part of the …

The world's climate is changing. It is well recognized that technical standards and project specifications of public …

Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results …

the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …