In 2011 the World Bank Group (WBG) issued a new trade strategy. This identifies the primary axes for WBG engagement and … countries to integrate further into the world economy and to benefit from global trade opportunities. This paper briefly … view that the strategy neglects to prioritize trade liberalization and as a result is less effective. …

In 2011 the World Bank Group (WBG) issued a new trade strategy. This identifies the primary axes for WBG engagement and … countries to integrate further into the world economy and to benefit from global trade opportunities. This paper briefly … view that the strategy neglects to prioritize trade liberalization and as a result is less effective. …

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation - measures … how those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation … benefit from trade facilitation. We find that firms of all sizes export more in response to improved trade facilitation. Our …

The decision not to launch negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on three of the Singapore Issues in the …

recreate to a high degree of accuracy the OECD’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), which takes account of … and telecommunications. Developing countries tend to have higher services trade restrictions, but less so than has been … found in research using data for the late 2000s. We show that the SPI has strong explanatory power for bilateral trade in …

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from measures to facilitate trade … - reduce trade costs - for African countries in particular. However, concerns have been expressed by policymakers regarding the … distribution of the benefits and costs of trade facilitation. We use firm-level data for a large number of developing countries, in …

countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The …

Non-reciprocal trade preferences and provisions in the GATT/WTO that allow developing countries greater leeway to …