. First, it presents a new database that offers a detailed assessment of the content of preferential arrangements, examining … the coverage and legal enforceability of provisions. The database covers 279 agreements signed by 189 countries between … 1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade …

the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …-based: CEPALSTAT, Income Distribution Database, Luxembourg Income Study, PovcalNet, and Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and …

This paper provides the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of … microfinance institution in the past year. Although half of adults around the world remain unbanked, at least 35 percent of them …

database allows the examination of the direct contribution of labor to exports as well as the indirect contribution via other … necessary information to build the Labor Content of Exports database from the original raw data, including stata do-files and …

This paper introduces the Exporter Dynamics Database. The database includes exporter characteristics and measures of … emerge from the database. (i) Larger or more developed economies have more exporters, larger and more diversified exporters … more difficult to explain with existing models. Several findings are confirmed in this database, including the importance …

A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy … quantification of policy measures. This paper is a guide to the database, and provides a description of the data, how it was … database. The database is best seen as a first response to the strong demand for better information from policy …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …

(the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …