We determine how time delays affect international trade, using newly-collected World Bank data on the days it takes to …

the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … the nature of knowledge engagement the World Bank Group is expected to have with the world …

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

of asymmetries in world asset demand and supply. Absent changes in the deep determinants of these, global imbalances can …

integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … depended heavily on extraregional trade in final goods. While production networks centered on China have contributed …

substantial welfare benefits for the world, and for China and India, and to act as a powerful offset to the terms-of-trade losses …Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming …

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

The world is currently still struggling with the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression … also analyzes why China's trade surplus increased significantly in general and with the United States in particular in … Asian economies to China and high corporate saving rates in China as a result of its dual-track approach to reform …

proximate national and regional challenges. The first is the emergence of one East Asian country, China, as a global trade giant …