Documentos e informes

Trade Watch (April 2022) (Inglés)

The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) the conflict in Ukraine has already disrupted shipping logistics in the Black Sea area and raised futures prices of fuels and key agricultural products...

Deep-Dive on Malaysia’s Digital Services Trade (Inglés)

The rapid expansion of digital technologies around the world has impacted many economic and social activities with increasingly reliable and fast Internet connectivity changing how people communicate...

Strengthening Services Trade in the Malaysian Economy (Inglés)

While Malaysia’s economy has had great success, it also faces several challenges including limited services trade. This report seeks to explain the main constraints that are holding back the services sector...

Trade Watch (February 2022) (Inglés)

The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Merchandise trade strengthened in November 2021 despite persistent value-chain bottlenecks and logistics constraints; (ii) Services trade is finally closing...

Trade Watch (December 2021) (Inglés)

The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic but hides divergent trends for quantities (weakening since early 2021) and prices of...

Trade Watch (November 2021) (Inglés)

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...

Kosovo Country Economic Memorandum : Boosting Export Performance (Inglés)

Improving Kosovo’s export competitiveness can help to catalyze growth and reduce poverty. As a small economy, Kosovo will benefit from integration, both globally and regionally, to exploit scale economies...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (October 2021) (Inglés)

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) (Inglés)

China Economic Update : Beyond the Recovery : Charting a Green and Inclusive Growth Path (Inglés)

China’s economy will post strong growth in 2021. Assuming the continued suppression of COVID-19 (coronavirus), growth is projected to reach 8.5 percent this year before slowing to 5.4 percent in 2022...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (March 2021) (Inglés)

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...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (February 2021) (Inglés)

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) (Inglés)

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 (Inglés)

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...

Update and Extension of the Services Trade Restrictiveness Database (Inglés)

This note describes how the Services Trade Restrictiveness Database (STRD) has been updated and expanded to African countries which have been traditionally underserved by the database. In addition, and...

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

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) (Inglés)

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...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (October 31, 2020) (Inglés)

Global container shipping capacity began to flatten in October, following the strong recovery trends observed in late spring and summer. Globally, trade carrying capacity (4-week average) is 2.1 percent...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (September 30, 2020) (Inglés)

Trade carrying capacity is currently 1.3 percent higher than last year, suggesting that global merchandise trade activity has largely recovered from the Coronavirus (COVID) - induced contraction. Trade...

COVID-19 Trade Watch (August 31, 2020) (Inglés)

Merchandise trade showed a strong rebound in June, after declines the previous three months. On a regional basis, strong rebounds in both exports and imports were observed in Europe and Central Asia (including...