liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

as US$43 billion during the crisis period, it explains less than 2 percent of the collapse in world trade …

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 …