Documents et rapports

Health Crisis, Mobility Restrictions, and Group Trade : Evidence from Small-Scale Cross-Border Transactions in the Great Lakes Region (anglais)

The mobility restrictions and health measures imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have had highly adverse impacts on small-scale cross-border trade. One coping strategy that traders have pursued is to...

Trade and Poverty in EU Regions : An Empirical Analysis (anglais)

This study builds on recent efforts by the World Bank and the European Commission in generating detailed poverty estimates at detailed subnational levels (the EU Poverty Map). This information is combined...

Official Documents- Administration Agreement with the European Commission on behalf of the European Union for TF073245 (anglais)

Trade and Poverty Reduction: New Evidence of Impacts in Developing Countries (anglais)

In recent years there has been an intensification of the long-running debate on the effects of trade integration. This debate has focused largely on the impact of trade in advanced economies, which has...

Does trade reduce poverty? : a view from Africa (anglais)

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. On the one hand, a...

The role of trade in ending poverty (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (français)

The expansion of international trade has been essential to development and reducing poverty but the relationship between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade is not a simple one. This publication...

The role of trade in ending poverty (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

The expansion of international trade has been essential to development and reducing poverty but the relationship between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade is not a simple one. This publication...

Azerbaijan - Internally Displaced Person (IDP) Living Standards and Livelihoods Project : report of independent auditors and combined special purpose financial statements for the year ended 31 December, 2013 (anglais)

Can trade reduce poverty in Africa? (anglais)

While most economists accept that, in the long run, open economies fare better in aggregate than closed ones, many fears that trade could harm the poor. African countries, for example, have realized significant...

Does trade reduce poverty ? a view from Africa (anglais)

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. A more liberalized...

Recent perspectives on trade and inequality (anglais)

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries and other features...

Gender aspects of the trade and poverty nexus : a macro-micro approach (anglais)

This report is on the findings of a major international research project examining the links between trade, gender, and poverty. Trade liberalization can create economic opportunities, but women and men...

Trade reforms, market access, and poverty in Argentina (anglais)

Much of the literature that studies the relationship between trade and poverty in developing countries focuses on the effects of national trade reforms, such as own tariff reductions. In contrast, the...

The developing world need the opportunity to trade out of poverty by James D. Wolfensohn, President (anglais)

This report discusses the remarks delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank. He discusses on drawing attention to the fact that for poverty alleviation to take place, for jobs to be...

Estimating the poverty impacts of trade liberalization (anglais)

As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how international...

Global trade and the 'development round': seizing the day : remarks at the third ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization by James D. Wolfensohn (anglais)

This report discusses the remarks delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank. He discusses that half the world's six billion people today live under $2 a day. Half of a far larger world...