cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to …

database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased …

This report, produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) of the World Bank … 1 gives an overview of the world economy and how it affects LAC's short and medium-term prospects. It argues that LAC … the response of LAC's trade to the recent depreciations and the role it could play in facilitating a recovery. It examines …

can achieve very high income levels. Small economies, however, do tend to be highly open to both international trade and … small number of export destinations. In turn, this export concentration is associated with terms of trade volatility, which … combined with high exposure to international trade, implies that small economies tend to face more volatility on average as …

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …