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Shoe molds and scuba divers: How natural disasters affect our supply chains
Like the massive earthquake in Japan earlier this year, the floods in Thailand are again exposing the vulnerabilities of fragmented global supply chains.Last month, a team of economists from PREM's...
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Rise of Non-Tariff Protectionism amid Global Uncertainty
A troubling phenomenon is occurring in large, emerging economies: the gates are closing. Governments, skittish about global economic trends, are introducing new policies to limit imports and exports....
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Why Dwell Time Matters
The state-owned operator of Indonesia’s Tanjung Priok Port is taking major steps to decrease congestion at the country’s main gateway. The company, Pelindo II, recently announced it will increase...
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More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Why Logistics Matter for Your Kindle
Picture a global supply chain. The one that puts together the Amazon Kindle, for example: The flex circuit conductors are made in China, the wireless card is made in South Korea, and the tablet is...
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Study: Liberalizing Foreign Investment in Services Boosts Manufacturing in...
Sometimes trade policy works through unexpected channels. In the case of Indonesia, opening the services sector to foreign investment appears to be a way to significantly boost the productivity of...
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Could the Next Batman Film Be Animated In Cambodia?
Animation schools in Cambodia are using the power of international trade to reach the poor. In recent years, a number of institutions have emerged to train young Khmers how to draw the characters used...
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As the Cost of Energy Goes Up, Food Prices Follow
A large increase in crude oil prices stands out among numerous factors to explain most of the jump in food prices over the last decade. Indeed, as we found in a recent World Bank study, oil prices were...
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Don’t put all your exports in one basket (That means you, resource-rich...
Diversification of a country’s exports – increasing both the number of products it produces and the destinations of those products – is considered part of the path to development. Many economists and...
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Trade Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: New Game, Old Rules?
Editor's Note: This blog draws on the forthcoming article “New Trade Regionalism in Asia: Looking Past the Sino-American Great Game," written by Swarnim Wagle, to be published in the Global Emerging...
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Notes From the Field: Taking On Politics, Shifting Paradigms
Editor's Note: "Notes From the Field" is an occasional feature where we let World Bank professionals conducting interesting trade-related projects around the globe explain some of the challenges and...
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New Online Tool for Calculating Trade Indicators
Access to reliable, accurate, and up-to-date data is crucial to the analysis work we do here at the World Bank. Making sure we have that data and making it as accessible as possible to others is...
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Using Video to Promote Successful Trade Facilitation in Laos
The World Bank has been working with the government of Lao PDR to better integrate the country into the regional and global economy since 2006. As the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia, Lao PDR...
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TPP & TTIP: More Questions Than Answers
If you follow trade negotiations, then you know there are few more contentious than those for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). On...
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For Vietnam, Trade Competitiveness Much More than a Slogan
Vietnam is one of the world's development success stories. It is undeniable. Between 1990 and 2010, Vietnam grew at an average annual rate of 7.4 percent—one of the world’s top five growth performance...
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A Fragile Country Tale: Restrictions, Trade Deficits and Aid Dependence
Part of the World Bank’s new vision is to step up its efforts to help fragile and conflict-afflicted states break the vicious cycle of poverty. But this is no easy task. The destruction of productive...
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A Portal to Greater South/South Cooperation
Here at the World Bank we put great effort into facilitating South-South exchanges. But the truth is that developing tangible results and sustainable partnerships are still tremendous challenges....
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Should Indonesia Worry About Imported Intermediates?
Indonesia finds itself at a crossroads on the trade policy map. A turn in one direction may mean more openness and greater regional integration. A turn the other way—more protectionism and economic...
View ArticleBoosting Malaysia's Performance in the World Cup of Trade
Trade issues can seem quite complex. Sometimes it's nice to boil concepts down to simpler terms-- terms more familiar, more beloved by many of us. So, let's talk futbol. The latest Malaysia Economic...
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What Will the Trade Facilitation Agreement Mean for the Aid for Trade Agenda?...
The world’s 45 Least Developed Countries that are not oil producers (non-oil LDCs) are exporting less and less in the global market place. Between 1985 and 2012, the world market share of non-oil LDCs’...
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Power Pools: How Cross-Border Trade in Electricity Can Help Meet Development...
For nearly three-fifths of the world population, the lack of access to energy is a major challenge to economic development and poverty reduction. Increasing cross-border trade in electricity can play a...
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