Over the past two decades, international trade has become a privileged engine of growth for much of the developing world. With the global economy evolving continuously and rapidly, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on the map of global trade and production. Within this...

Today’s international trade in goods is driven mainly by the growth of exports and imports of the South.Emerging countries naturally gain global market shares in manufactured goods from old industrialized countries, including Europe. This trend has became even more pronounced during the last...

French Abstract:: Cet article présente une méthode d'évaluation de l'ouverture commerciale applicable au niveau de marchés élémentaires (plus de 5 000 produits et 200 pays). Les barrières aux échanges sont identifiées grâce à un indicateur de discrimination commerciale révélée....

Export and import price indices are useful instruments in international economics. We document here TradePrices, our database of aggregated and sectoral trade price indices for all countries, computed using unit values given by BACI, the CEPII's database of international trade at the...

This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries and 5,000 products, between 1994 and 2007. New approaches have been developed to reconcile data reported by almost 150 countries to the United Nations Statistics Division,...

Over the past two decades, international trade has become a privileged engine of growth for much of the developing world. In the wake of the global crisis, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on the global map of trade and production and become aware of how they fare relative...