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 …

The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …

retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains …

-income countries. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and …

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the data -- Introduction -- The world by income, FY2017 -- The world by region … the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank … and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World …

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …