Documents et rapports

Reshaping Global Value Chains in Light of COVID-19 : Implications for Trade and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries (anglais)

Global value chains (GVCs) have driven dramatic expansions in trade, productivity, and economic growth in developing countries over the past three decades. Reshaping Global Value Chains in Light of COVID-19:...

Dynamiser Une Croissance Durable du Secteur Privéau Moyen-orient Eten Afrique du Nord : Données Factuelles de l’Enquêtesur les Entreprises (français)

Global value chains (GVCs) have driven dramatic expansions in trade, productivity, and economic growth in developing countries over the past three decades. Reshaping Global Value Chains in Light of COVID-19:...

Trade Watch (December 2021) (anglais)

The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic but hides divergent trends for quantities (weakening since early 2021) and prices of...

Trade Watch (November 2021) (anglais)

The key messages of this newsletter include : Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic ones. Global services trade continues to recover, and it is only now slightly below pre-pandemic...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (October 2021) (anglais)

Merchandise trade has decelerated in recent months. The value of global merchandise trade in July 2021 was 3 percent less than in March 2021 (Figure 1). The stagnation in value terms affects all categories...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (September 2021) (anglais)

COVID-19 Trade Watch (March 2021) (anglais)

This newsletter on COVID-19 trade watch for March 2021 has the following sub-headings: (a) Principal findings; (b) Merchandise trade in focus; (c) Logistics in focus; (d) The Suez incident and (e) Air...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (February 2021) (anglais)

This newsletter on COVID-19 trade watch for February 2021 has the following sub-headings: principal findings; additional findings-merchandise trade; additional findings-services trade; additional findings-logistics;...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (January 29, 2021) (anglais)

Global container shipping capacity remained flat though January 18, 2021, in contrast with the strong recovery observed from April to September 2020. Global merchandise trade has continued to recover in...

Actual and Potential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific : Estimated Effects (anglais)

This paper assesses and compares the economic impacts of four actual and potential free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (November 30, 2020) (anglais)

Global container shipping carrying capacity remained flat in the most recent data through November 15, continuing the pattern from October and breaking the strong recovery in the spring and summer. In...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (October 31, 2020) (anglais)

Global container shipping capacity began to flatten in October, following the strong recovery trends observed in late spring and summer. Globally, trade carrying capacity (4-week average) is 2.1 percent...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (September 30, 2020) (anglais)

Trade carrying capacity is currently 1.3 percent higher than last year, suggesting that global merchandise trade activity has largely recovered from the Coronavirus (COVID) - induced contraction. Trade...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (August 31, 2020) (anglais)

Merchandise trade showed a strong rebound in June, after declines the previous three months. On a regional basis, strong rebounds in both exports and imports were observed in Europe and Central Asia (including...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (July 31, 2020) (anglais)

Real time indicators show merchandise trade recovering in June and July. Trade data in June, available for 22 countries, show exports were, on average, down 5.8 percent year-on-year (YoY) compared with...

Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (anglais)

The Kyrgyz Republic has experienced modest and volatile economic expansion since the economy bottomed out from the transition recession in 1995, when GDP amounted to about half of its pre-independence...

Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality (anglais)

Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (June 29, 2020) (anglais)

Merchandise trade appears to have bottomed out in April, falling nearly 20 percent year on year (YoY), after a 10 percent decline in March. For the handful of countries with available May data, trade remains...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (May 29, 2020) (anglais)

The contraction in the nominal value of global merchandise trade that began in mid-2018 deepened in March, with global exports of merchandise trade declining by 11.9 percent in March year-on-year (YoY)...

Kyrgyz Republic - Country Economic Memorandum (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (anglais)

The Kyrgyz Republic has experienced modest and volatile economic expansion since the economy bottomed out from the transition recession in 1995, when GDP amounted to about half of its pre-independence...