Documents et rapports

Trade Policies Mix and Match : Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes (anglais)

This paper studies the factors affecting governments’ mixed use of tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) as trade and industrial policies. Results based on detailed bilateral-product-level ad valorem...

Nepal - Accelerating Transport and Trade Connectivity in Eastern South Asia (ACCESS) Project : Fourth Implementation Review and Support - March 25 to April 17, 2024 (anglais)

Guidance Manual for Independent Evaluation Group Validators : Implementation Completion and Results Report Reviews for Development Policy Financing (anglais)

This manual provides guidance to evaluators preparing ICRRs on ICRs for development policy financing operations. It provides guidance for and gives examples of how to structure ICRRs with respect to content...

Bangladesh - First Bangladesh Regional Connectivity Project : Modernizing Trade Logistics and Improving Integration and Competitiveness (anglais)

Bangladesh is well placed to play an important role in regional trade and logistics networks, and as a transit country in South Asia. There are corridors and associated border crossing points that connect...

Trade Finance in the Mekong Region : A Study of Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, and Viet Nam (anglais)

Improving access to affordable trade finance could increase imports and exports by up to 9 percent in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Lao PDR, according to a new report by International Finance Corporation (IFC)...

Bangladesh - Regional Connectivity Project : Updated Resettlement Action Plan of Sheola Land Port (Bangla)

The development objective of Regional Connectivity Project for Bangladesh is to improve conditions for trade through improving connectivity, reducing logistics bottlenecks, and supporting the adoption...

Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade (anglais)

Quality regulation has become the dominant instrument of trade policy. Panel evidence shows that regulations classified as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade both increase...

Trade Watch (Second Quarter 2023) (anglais)

Goods trade contracted slightly in the first quarter of 2023 as tight monetary conditions, growing financial stress, elevated geopolitical tensions and lingering pandemic-related disruptions in East Asia...

Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing ? And If So, Why? And What Is Next? (anglais)

Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008–09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public...

The Impacts of Intellectual Property–Related Preferential Trade Agreements on Bilateral Patent Applications (anglais)

Intellectual property rights have become a central emphasis in the negotiation of “deep” preferential trade agreements containing provisions on regulatory environments besides trade policy. These provisions...

Nepal - Strategic Road Connectivity and Trade Improvement Project (SRCTIP) : Fifth Implementation Review and Support Mission - December 12 to 22, 2022 (anglais)

Lao People’s Democratic Republic - Competitiveness and Trade Project : Seventh Implementation Support Mission - November 14 to 30, 2022 (anglais)

Integrating Investment Climate in Lending Operations : Part I - Presentation (anglais)

This guide aims to provide a training material on how to design or supervise investment climate (IC) interventions in different lending instruments. The guide includes an overview of how IC interventions...

Le Financement du Commerce en Afrique de l’Ouest : Étude Sur la Côte D'ivoire, le Ghana, le Nigéria et le Sénégal (français)

Trade is an important component of economic activity in Africa, equivalent to around 50 percent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the World Bank. The four largest economies...

Integrating Investment Climate in Lending Operations : Part II - Companion Note to the PowerPoint Presentation (anglais)

This guide aims to provide a training material on how to design or supervise investment climate (IC) interventions in different lending instruments. The guide includes an overview of how IC interventions...

Maize Trade Policies in Zambia : Options for Growth (anglais)

The Government of the Republic of Zambia aims to transform the economy to support economic growth and facilitate job creation. Central to the transformation agenda is a commitment to open trade regime...

Vietnam : Connecting Value Chains for Trade Competitiveness (anglais)

Vietnam’s export-led growth strategy and global integration are among the key factors behind the country’s remarkable achievements in growth and poverty reduction over the last two and a half decades...

Vietnam - Enterprise Competitiveness and Linkages : Supporting Industries for productivity-led development - What Can We Learn from Global Experience? (anglais)

The objective of the study is to support government’s efforts to enhance competitiveness of the domestic private sector through linkages to foreign direct investment (FDI). Vietnam 2035 emphasizes deepening...

Digital Market Regulations for Promoting Business Innovation and Digitalization in Vietnam (anglais)

Vietnam needs to sustain high labor productivity growth to achieve its aspiration of becoming a high-income economy. Business innovation and digitalization are key for Vietnam to achieve higher firm productivity...

Small-scale Cross-border Trade Survey - Lagos-Kano-Niamey Corridor Report (anglais)

The Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) Program aims to facilitate the free, efficient movement of goods in and beyond the region by reducing the times and costs borne by private traders and by strengthening...