Documents et rapports

Services Trade Policies across Africa : New Evidence for 54 Economies (anglais)

In 2023, the global coverage of the Services Trade Policy Database, jointly developed by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, has been significantly expanded to cover more economies, focusing...

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 (June 2, 2021) (anglais)

Global maritime supply chains continue to experience unprecedented disruptions. Capacity tensions associated with rapid, uneven rising trade demand in some regions have coincided with operational disruptions...

Deep Services Trade Agreements and their Effect on Trade and Value Added (anglais)

The majority of services trade is currently transacted under the terms of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) with increasingly ambitious provisions on crossborder trade and investment in services. This...

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...

Regulating Personal Data : Data Models and Digital Services Trade (anglais)

While regulations on personal data diverge widely between countries, it is nonetheless possible to identify three main models based on their distinctive features: one model based on open transfers and...

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...

Services Trade Competitiveness Diagnostics - A Note on Methodology : Services Trade Competitiveness Diagnostics - A Note on Methodology (anglais)

The analysis of trade in services presented in this note is based on the methodology from the World Bank’s Services Trade Diagnostic Toolkit. This diagnostic helps assess the trade performance of a country’s...

Russia Integrates : Deepening the Country’s Integration in the Global Economy (anglais)

Russia’s early development successes resulted from undertaking ambitious structural reforms, a commodity cycle boom, and taking steps to promote greater economic openness, including becoming a member of...

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...

Digital Pakistan - Economic Policy for Export Competitiveness : A Business and Trade Assessment (anglais)

This report analyses the recent trends in Pakistani Information Technologies (IT) and InformationTechnologies enabled Services (ITeS), as well as obstacles confronted by firms. The authors assess the importance...

Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : What Are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences? (anglais)

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries...

Realizing Armenia's High-Tech Potential (anglais)

Armenia's economy is heavily reliant on domestic demand, which is itself driven by remittances that support local construction and consumption. Armenia will need to shift to an export led strategy if it...

Realizing Armenia's High-Tech Potential (arménien)

Armenia's economy is heavily reliant on domestic demand, which is itself driven by remittances that support local construction and consumption. Armenia will need to shift to an export led strategy if it...

Exporting Financial services in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)

According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), trade in services has become the most dynamic segment of world trade, growing more quickly than trade in goods. While travel remains the most exported service...

Country Economic Memorandum : Background Note 3 - Where has trade growth come from in São Tomé and Príncipe (anglais)

This note examines the competitiveness of the export sector in São Tomé and Príncipe. It relies on the framework developed by Reis and Farole (2012) and examines the export competitiveness along four complementary...

Services for Trade Competitiveness : Country and Regional Assessments of Services Trade (anglais)

Recognizing that services affect the ability of countries and their firms to compete on international markets, the World Bank’s Trade and Regional Integration Unit has developed an extensive work program...