volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author … negative effect on agricultural trade-policy volatility. The author find that the World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural …

Barber B. Conable, President of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation addressed the topic of the … outlook for trade and, indeed, for the world economy. He discusses that export development in the developing countries is not …

World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current …

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

-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

. 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 …