Documents et rapports
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Reforming non-tariff measures : from evidence to policy advice (anglais)
The empirical case for trade as an engine of growth has now been established on solid empirical grounds. There has been a protracted controversy in the literature on the econometrics of trade and growth...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 127167 Date du document: 6 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Ferrantino,Michael Joseph,Gourdon,Julien,Reye, José-Daniel
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Inclusive global value chains : policy options for small and medium enterprises and low-income countries (anglais)
This report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 108021 Date du document: 23 août 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cusolito,Ana Paula,Safadi,Raed,Taglioni,Daria
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Toward new sources of competitiveness in Bangladesh : key findings of the diagnostic trade integration study (anglais)
This diagnostic trade integration study (DTIS) analyzes the internal and external constraints to further integration with the world economy, keeping in view the end goals of job creation and poverty reduction...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 100058 Date du document: 30 septembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kathuria,Sanjay,Malouche,Mariem
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Costa Rica five years after CAFTA-DR : assessing early results (anglais)
For Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic-Central America-free trade agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been more than a trade agreement. Costa Rica has used trade liberalization and promotion of international trade...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 97251 Date du document: 5 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Koehler-Geib,Fritzi [editor],Sanchez,Susana M. [editor]
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Trade in Zimbabwe : changing incentives to enhance competitiveness (anglais)
In Zimbabwe trade has been a driver of economic growth, rising incomes, and progressive empowerment of Zimbabweans through rising standards of living and the promise of better jobs. Since 1980, through...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 96622 Date du document: 22 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Newfarmer,Richard S.,Pierola Castro,Martha Denisse
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Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 95681 Date du document: 7 avril 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Freund,Caroline,Jaud,Melise
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Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa : En quête de champions : promouvoir les exportations au moyen-orient et en Afrique du Nord (français)
While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 95681 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Freund,Caroline,Jaud,Melise
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Champions wanted : promoting exports in the Middle East and North Africa (arabe)
While other emerging regions were thriving, MENA's aggregate export performance over the past two decades has been consistently weak. Using detailed firm-level export data from Customs administrations...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 95681 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Freund,Caroline,Jaud,Melise
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Trading away from conflict : using trade to increase resilience in fragile states (anglais)
While economic growth in developing countries over the last ten years has lifted more people out of poverty than in any previous time, more than one billion people still live in countries affected by violent...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 93123 Date du document: 8 décembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cali,Massimiliano
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Sticky feet : how labor market frictions shape the impact of international trade on jobs and wages (anglais)
This report analyzes the paths by which developing country labor markets adjust to permanent trade-related shocks. Trade shocks can bring about reallocation of labor between industries, but the presence...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 88890 Date du document: 17 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ruppert Bulmer,Elizabeth N.,Hollweg,Claire Honore,Lederman,Daniel,Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego
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The Eurasian connection : supply-chain efficiency along the modern silk route through Central Asia (anglais)
Central Asia is often associated with the silk route or road, the longest overland trade route connecting China to Europe and one of the oldest in history. Growth opportunities and the future prosperity...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 88891 Date du document: 12 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arvis,Jean Francois,Rastogi,Cordula
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Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains (anglais)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is becoming an increasingly significant catalyst for output and trade in developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of Global Value Chains (GVCs)...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 83501 Date du document: 17 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farole,Thomas,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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Using bilateral labor agreements to increase trade in services (anglais)
Unlike the movement of capital, the movement of labor across countries remains highly restricted-despite the huge global returns to international labor mobility. According to one estimate, allowing the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 78684 Date du document: 13 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Saez,Juan Sebastian
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Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru (anglais)
Trade reform in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s was in significant part a reform of policy-making institutions. The institutions that existed when the reforms began had been created in response to...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 79618 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio,Leon Thorne,Raul Matias
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Regional economic integration in the Middle East and North Africa : beyond trade reform (anglais)
Limited integration has stifled the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's ability to tap into its significant potential for economic growth and job creation. The MENA region is among the least integrated...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 74102 Date du document: 28 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rouis,Mustapha,Tabor,Steven R.
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Reform by numbers : measurement applied to customs and tax administrations in developing countries (anglais)
This paper is organized as follows. In chapter two, Samson Bilangna and Marcellin Djeuwo from the Cameroon customs administration present the history and the outcomes of the performance measurement policy...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 73516 Date du document: 31 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cantens,Thomas,Ireland, Robert,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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Natural resource abundance, growth, and diversification in the Middle East and North Africa : the effects of natural resources and the role of policies (anglais)
This book is organized as follows: this first chapter examines the pattern of structural transformation in Middle East and North Africa, or MENA and summarizes the role of various factors examined thoroughly...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 72463 Date du document: 8 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diop,Ndiame,Marotta,Daniela,De Melo,Jaime A. P.
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Pathways to African export sustainability (anglais)
This report provides tentative leads toward such policy prescriptions, based on an overview of the empirical evidence. Chapter one sets the stage by putting Africa's export-survival performance into perspective...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 70910 Date du document: 2 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brenton,Paul,Cadot,Olivier,Pierola Castro,Martha Denisse
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African agricultural reforms : the role of consensus and institutions (anglais)
Studies evaluating the supply response in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to the agricultural policy reforms have found that agricultural growth rates after reforms have been uneven, and, in many countries. The...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 69937 Date du document: 11 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aksoy,M. Ataman
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Streamlining non-tariff measures : a toolkit for policy makers (anglais)
This volume is organized as follows. Chapter one discusses the newly revamped non-tariff measure (NTM) classification system, the data collection effort so far, and the key characteristics of the data...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 68359 Date du document: 20 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Malouche,Mariem,Saez,Juan Sebastian