Trade

This blog analyses the consequences of an energy shock on global growth. It puts the current rise in energy prices into historical context, presents model-based estimates of its growth impacts,…

The Lao PDR Trade Portal — the first Trade Information Portal set up with support from the Trade Development Facility Project — turns ten years old in June 2022. In its first decade, the portal…

Africa faces a continuously changing global trade environment, bringing new challenges and opportunities for increasing growth and reducing poverty. The proliferation of regional trade agreements…

The pandemic experience revealed a new set of strengths and weaknesses of global trade. A joint report shows that open trade will be increasingly important to meet the growing demand for health-…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not only caused an enormous humanitarian catastrophe, but an economic shock as well. This blog presents five charts that convey how the war is hastening an…