"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade …

poor countries than among industrial economies. Overall export diversification increases at low levels of development but …"Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a …

A developing country's good (or bad) export performance in one market can affect its future export performance not only … exporting to similar markets. Thus, through information spillovers, export success (or failure) becomes cumulative across …

"This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the … World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the … effects of domestic policies that affect trade costs. Based on a gravity regression framework, the analysis suggests that …

"The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of …

"This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

than other firms (Carlin and others 2001). Clarke assesses how competition and trade policy affect these different aspects … price competition in the domestic economy. The net impact that lower tariffs have on new product and process development … and better enforcement of those laws appear to increase the likelihood of new product and process development, especially …