Documents et rapports

Diagnosing Dimensions of Modernization of National Statistical Systems (anglais)

The proposed diagnostic fills a void between widely available quantitative indicators and detailed diagnostics of the capacity of an NSS. Statistical capacity can readily be ranked across countries using...

Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Peru and Argentina (anglais)

This paper examines trade policies in Peru and Argentina since the reforms of the 1990s. Peru provides a valuable example of sustaining reform. Leaders have used negotiations and other international instruments...

Haiti - World trade indicators 2009 (Vol. 1 of 2) : Trade brief (anglais)

This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession. The trade at a glance...

General trends in competition policy and investment regulation in mandatory defined contribution markets in Latin America (anglais)

Following Chile's pension reform in 1981, a wave of multi-pillar pension reforms took place in Latin America (LAC). Their implementation has revealed new policy challenges. To shed light on these issues...

A survey of non-tariff measures in the East Asia and Pacific region : policy research report (anglais)

This report seeks to give a multifaceted view of non-tariff issues facing countries in the East Asia and Pacific region both vis-a-vis their most important export markets as well as intra-regionally. While...

Uganda - how good a trade policy benchmark for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? (anglais)

This note evaluates Uganda's trade regime in 1997 and 2001, using the methodology developed by Hinkle et al (2003) in How far did Africa's First Generation Trade Reforms Go? An Intermediate Methodology...

An analysis of the trade regime in Senegal (2001) and UEMOA's common exsternal policies (anglais)

This note evaluates Senegal's trade regime in 2001 and UEMOA's common external trade policies, using the methodology developed in Hinkle et al (2003). We find that the trade regime was reasonably open...

How accession to the European Union has affected external trade and foreign direct investment in Central European economies (anglais)

The collapse of central planning set in motion the reintegration of the Central European countries into the world economy. The European Union (EU), because of its proximity, economic weight, and policy-induced...

Statement by Girmai Abraham at the meeting of April 5, 2001 (anglais)

This is a statement by Girmai Abraham at the meeting of April 5, 2001 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for India.

Mexico - Export dynamics and productivity : analysis of Mexican manufacturing in the 1990s (anglais)

The report examines the export performance of Mexican enterprises in the 1990s, to determine whether the intended effects of trade liberalization, have indeed occurred. The depth, and extent of changes...

Cyprus - Industrial Financial Restructuring (anglais)

The role of special differential treatment for developing countries in GATT and the World Trade Organization (anglais)

The author analyzes how changes in thinking about the role trade plays in economic development have been reflected in provisions affecting developing countries in the GATT and the WTO. He focuses on the...

Trade polices for electronic commerce (anglais)

Some countries in the World Trade Organization initially opposed WTO's decision to exempt electronic delivery of products from customs duties, out of concern for the revenue consequences. Others supported...

The EU factor in the trade policies of Central European countries (anglais)

The author examines the development of foreign trade institutions and policies in Central European countries invited to negotiate their accession to the European Union. With the dismantling of state trading...

Market access advances and retreats : the Uruguay Round and beyond (anglais)

In the Uruguay Round negotiations, trade distorting agricultural policies were taken up substantively for the first time in any round of multi-lateral trade negotiations. Voluntary export restraints outside...

Trade liberalization, fiscal adjustment, and exchange rate policy in India (anglais)

The authors investigate the impact of India's program of economic stabilization and trade liberalization launched in 1991, a year when the country was in the throes of a foreign exchange crisis. The authors...

South Asia's integration into the world economy (anglais)

This study provides perhaps the first attempt to take a comprehensive look at what the process of integrating South Asia into the world economy has already accomplished, at the potentialities for further...

Trade reforms, incentives on ground and firm performance in Ghana (anglais)

Ghana was one of the first African countries to initiate an IMF/World Bank-sponsored structural adjustment program. In 1983, the Government of Ghana (GOG) introduced its Economic Recovery Program after...

Bangladesh - Second Industrial Pollution Control Project (anglais)

Surveillance of agricultural price and trade policy in Latin America during major policy reforms (anglais)

Since approximately 1990, most countries in Latin America have embarked on a multilateral process of trade liberalization for agricultural and non-agricultural products, effectively putting an end to four...