the rest of the world …

analysis finds that the elasticities are close to unity, evaluated at world median per capita income levels. Furthermore, the …

countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …

World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

Rules of Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant …

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …