evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework …

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 …

A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 …

results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …

apply the World Trade Organization's global safeguards policy instrument. The four examples include recent policies applied …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …