Since the 1970s, the world has embarked on a new financial globalization era. Cross-country capital flows have … significantly increased in developed and developing countries. However, the characteristics of financial globalization differ from … financial globalization (such as additional funding, broad diversification, and deeper financial systems), the positive effects …

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …