Trade Center and the World Bank. The data set covers 5,203 products, 199 reporters, and 239 partners, representing …World trade is increasingly ruled by preferential trade agreements (PTAs), but their precise nature remains relatively … approximately 97 percent of world imports in 2016. There are three main findings. First, PTAs have significantly widened the scope …

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 …

. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …