This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening …? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade … performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Current estimates of growth in the volumes of trade in goods …

The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade … are identified through which such countries might attenuate the potential downsides of preferential trade liberalization …

with the assistance of Giovanni Guazzarotti and Andrea Lamorgese -- Growing world trade: causes and consequences / Paul …Introduction / Mathias Dewatripont, André Sapir and Khalid Sekkat -- How much has LDC trade affected Western job … markets? / Richard Freeman and Ana Revenga -- Relative prices, trade and restructuring in European industry / Damien Neven and …