Documentos e informes
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Services Trade Policies across Africa : New Evidence for 54 Economies (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10537 Fecha del documento: 7 de agosto de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Baiker,Laura,Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine,Joscelyn,Marchetti,Juan
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Services Trade Policies in Africa : WB-WTO Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) (Inglés)
This report focuses on services trade policies in Africa. It covers the following: Quantifying policy restrictiveness; Policy restrictiveness in Africa; and Gauging policy reform.
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 183106 Fecha del documento: 22 de junio de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Baiker, Laura
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Services Trade Policies across Africa : New Evidence for 54 Economies (Inglés)
In 2023, the global coverage of the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), jointly developed by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, has been significantly expanded to cover more economies...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 183102 Fecha del documento: 5 de mayo de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Baiker, Laura,Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine, Joscelyn,Marchetti, Juan
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Deep Services Trade Agreements and their Effect on Trade and Value Added (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9608 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Di Ubaldo,Mattia
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Applied Services Trade Policy: A Guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index (Inglés)
This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9264 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Magdeleine,Joscelyn,Marchetti,Juan A.,Mattoo,Aaditya,Rubio,Ester,Shannon,Evgeniia
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The Evolution of Services Trade Policy Since the Great Recession (Inglés)
Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, this paper draws on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9265 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine,Joscelyn,Marchetti,Juan A.,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Dark costs, missing data : shedding some light on services trade (Inglés)
A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries, and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers flexibly are often...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7465 Fecha del documento: 29 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Anderson,James E.,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya,Yotov,Yoto Valentinov
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The trade-reducing effects of restrictions on liner shipping (Inglés)
This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6921 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bertho,Fabien,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services : the role of policy and industrial structure (Inglés)
This paper presents evidence on the determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services sectors. It develops a stylized model of mergers and acquisitions that predicts that the incidence...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6905 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barattieri, Alessandro,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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The World Bank economic review 28 (1) (Inglés)
This paper is organized in following headings: how can safety nets contribute to economic growth?; political reforms and public policy: evidence from agricultural and food policies; food security and storage...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 113048 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Alderman,Harold H.,Yemtsov,Ruslan G.,Olper,Alessandro,Falkowski,Jan,Swinnen,Johan F. M.,Larson,Donald F.,Lampietti,Julian A.,Gouel,Christophe,Cafiero,Carlo,Roberts,John,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Portugal-Perez,Alberto,Fafchamps,Marcel,Soderbom,Mans Martin,Gibson,Jhon,Mckenzie,David J.,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (Inglés)
Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements, but in many...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 112397 Fecha del documento: 14 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (Inglés)
Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements but these commitments...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6109 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Guide to the services trade restrictions database (Inglés)
A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS6108 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Landlocked or policy locked ? how services trade protection deepens economic isolation (Inglés)
A new cross-country database on services policy reveals a perverse pattern: many landlocked countries restrict trade in the very services that connect them with the rest of the world. On average, telecommunications...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS5942 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Grover,Arti Goswami,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Unfinished Business? The WTO's Doha Agenda (Inglés)
This book examines the state and the fate of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). The volume has three key objectives: to provide qualitative and quantitative information about the implications of what is...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 65456 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Anderson,Kym,Blandford,David,Borchert,Ingo,Bouët, Antoine,Brown, Chad P.,Gootiiz,Batshur,Grant,Jason Hugh,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Josling,Timothy E.,Debucquet,David Laborde,Martin, Will,Mattoo,Aaditya,Meilke,Karl,Nelgen,Signe,Prusa,Thomas J.,Subramanian,Arvind,Taylor,Benjamin J.,Wilson,John S.,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth,Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique
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The crisis-resilience of services trade (Inglés)
Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services trade. Using new trade data from the United States, and more aggregate data from other...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4917 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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The crisis resilience of services trade (Inglés)
The current gloom and doom about goods trade has obscured the quiet resilience of services trade. Services account for over one fifth of global cross-border trade, and for some countries such as India...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 51625 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Trade diversion under selective preferential market access (Inglés)
Through its diverse trade preference schemes, the European Union provides different groups of developing countries with different degrees of market access. This paper is the first to demonstrate empirically...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4710 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Borchert,Ingo