This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …

Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has … explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism …-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between international tourism and the adoption of digital technologies that …

Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on … lagging regions are under debate. Many studies have evaluated the growth impacts of the tourism sector but few have analyzed … the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by …

This paper studies the relationship between access to credit, demand shocks, and export market adjustments using firm … demand have a significant influence on the firm's decision to participate in international markets (extensive margin) and on … the firm's share of foreign sales (intensive margin). Foreign shocks to demand only affect the firm's share of foreign …

demand and productivity and lets the mass of firms that enter be endogenous. Trade preferences given by one country have …

economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import …

Rapid growth among the major emerging markets over the past 20 years has boosted global demand for commodities. The …-intensive activities, their demand for commodities may plateau. This paper estimates income elasticities of demand for a range of energy … and GDP growth slows, growth in demand for commodities may also slow. Based on current population and GDP growth forecasts …

of a long-run Granger causality from economic growth to lower energy intensity for all countries. The study also finds … evidence of long-run bidirectional causality between lower energy intensity and higher economic growth for middle …

stability, and conflict risk; and third, to assess how prospective political transitions have implications for the World Bank …