the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …

low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world …

Deepening real and financial integration of developing countries into the world economy has prompted renewed interest …

income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs is largely unfavorable to the developing world: trade costs are falling …

sample -- i.e., the low-income countries according to the World Bank classification, 2006). The analysis shows that this … could well be a reflection of increased integration of this group of countries in the world economy or greater …

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 …

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 …

sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …