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  • Services Trade Policies across Africa : New Evidence for 54 Economies (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10537 Document Date: August 7, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baiker,Laura,Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine,Joscelyn,Marchetti,Juan

  • Services Trade Policies across Africa : New Evidence for 54 Economies (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 183102 Document Date: May 5, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baiker, Laura,Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine, Joscelyn,Marchetti, Juan

  • Deep Services Trade Agreements and their Effect on Trade and Value Added (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9608 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Di Ubaldo,Mattia

  • The Evolution of Services Trade Policy Since the Great Recession (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9265 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Magdeleine,Joscelyn,Marchetti,Juan A.,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Dark costs, missing data : shedding some light on services trade (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7465 Document Date: October 29, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,James E.,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya,Yotov,Yoto Valentinov

  • The trade-reducing effects of restrictions on liner shipping (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6921 Document Date: June 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bertho,Fabien,Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • The World Bank economic review 28 (1) (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 113048 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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

  • Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 112397 Document Date: July 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Policy barriers to international trade in services : evidence from a new database (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6109 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Guide to the services trade restrictions database (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6108 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Landlocked or policy locked ? how services trade protection deepens economic isolation (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5942 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Gootiiz,Batshur,Grover,Arti Goswami,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Unfinished Business? The WTO's Doha Agenda (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 65456 Document Date: November 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: 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

  • The crisis-resilience of services trade (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4917 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • The crisis resilience of services trade (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 51625 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo,Mattoo,Aaditya

  • Trade diversion under selective preferential market access (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4710 Document Date: September 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Borchert,Ingo