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...
How did the US-China trade war affect global trade? Surprisingly, exports of products taxed by US or China increased from “bystander” countries to the rest of world (excluding US and China). Hence, the...
What is the pathway to development in a world marked by rising economic nationalism and less international integration? This paper answers this question within a framework that emphasizes the role of demand-side...
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using...
This report includes: what is global value chain? What makes GVCS special? Countries participate in different ways; and breaking into manufacturing GVCS boosts income growth.
Trade policy and poverty reduction in Brazil by Glenn W Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, and Angelo Gurgel; Trade liberalization and industry wage structure: evidence from Brazil by Nina...