An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …

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 …

the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …

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