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New World Bank Research Publications on Trade
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Poverty & the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda
An âambitiousâ agreement in the WTOâs Doha Development Round of trade talks would reduce poverty, says a new World Bank research study, but some countries such as Brazil and China would make immediate gains, while others, such as Bangladesh, would need help to achieve the projected long-term poverty reduction a trade deal offers them. âPoverty is reduced under an ambitious Doha Development Agreement, and this reduction is more pronounced in the longer run,â said L. Alan Winters, Director of the World Bankâs Research Group, and co-editor, with Thomas Hertel, Professor of Economics at Purdue University of Poverty and the WTO â Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda. âTo fully realize their potential to stimulate growth and thereby reduce poverty, trade reforms need to be far-reaching, addressing barriers to services trade and investment in addition to merchandise tariffs.â
To download the Overview or read the press release, please visit http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/trade/poverty_wtoAgricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
Abolition of tariffs, subsidies and domestic support programs would boost global welfare by nearly $300 billion per year by 2015, says a new World Bank research study, Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda, published November 2005. Close to two-thirds of these gains would come from agricultural trade reform, because agriculture is so much more distorted than other sectors. "Making agricultural markets more accessible is the most fundamental reform that needs to emerge from the Doha round of WTO negotiations," said Will Martin, lead economist in the Bankâs trade research group, and co-editor of the book with Kym Anderson. To download the book or read the press release, please visit http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/tradeTo find out more about the World Bank's thinking on trade and activities/events related to the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, please visit the Bank's Hong Kong Ministerial website at http://www.worldbank.org/trade/hongkong***********************************************************************
Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration
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International migration can generate substantial welfare gains for migrants and their families, as well as their origin and destination countries, if policies to better manage the flow of migrants and facilitate the transfer of remittances are pursued, says the World Bank's annual Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report for 2006, published mid-November 2005.
For more information about the report, and to download the full text, please visit http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gep2006In its Outlook section, the report forecasts that economic growth in developing countries will slow to 5.9 percent this year, and to 5.7 percent in 2006, down from 6.8 percent in 2004. Developing economies will continue to grow at historically very high rates, and more than twice as fast as high-income economies. Economic growth in the latter is also expected to slow from 3.1 percent growth in 2004 to around 2.5 percent in 2005 and 2006.
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For Maximum Economic Growth from Trade Liberalization, Countries Should Consider Complementary Domestic Reforms
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Recent World Bank research suggests that countries should complement trade openness with greater flexibility of their investment climate and labor markets, and pay more attention to other key areas such as governance and infrastructure, among others. âTrade boosts growth in flexible economies, but its positive impact is much reducedâand in some cases, even reversedâin excessively regulated economies,â said Caroline Freund, Senior Economist in the World Bankâs Trade Research Team. As multilateral trade policies are debated during the Doha round of trade negotiations, it is clear that developing countries seeking to boost growth generated by trade liberalization should also build strategies for other domestic reforms. To read the complete feature story or download working papers by Freund and Loayza, please visit http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/macroeconomics***********************************************************************
The World Bank Research Program: Abstracts of Current Studies 2004
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The annual compendium of abstracts of all active Bank research projects for 2004 was published in November 2005, describing for each project the questions, analytical methods, findings and policy implications, the research team, and any reports or publications produced. To make it easier for readers to obtain information and data, each abstract gives the email address for the research projectâs supervisor. This volume covers 151 research projects from throughout the Bank.
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Young People from Around the World Comment on Themes of Upcoming 2007 World Development Report
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Comments from young people around the world on the themes of the 2007 World Development Report on Development and the Next Generation are posted on the World Bank's Youthink! website. To read what they think about the major transitions that young people undertake, please visit http://youthink.worldbank.org/issues/development/wdr2007responses.php
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Do Macroeconomic Crises Affect Schooling and Child Health? Evidence from Peru
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Over the past two decades a large number of countries (Argentina, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, and Russia) have experienced economic crises that led to sharp reductions in incomes and living standards, with a terrible cost imposed on poor households. Recent World Bank research on the effect of such crises on schooling and child health in Peru suggests that, at least with regard to health, there may be scope for public policies to protect households during macroeconomic crises. Reforms to budgeting processesâfor example, to establish contingency funds for social expenditures during economic downturnsâcould be important. This work also highlights the need for further study of the impact of specific crises on human capital in a range of circumstances, eventually creating a basis for the development of appropriate responses by governments and the international development community.
To read the complete feature story by Norbert Schady, Senior Economist with the World Bank's Public Services Team, please visit http://econ.worldbank.org/programs/public_services***********************************************************************
New Policy Research Working Papers
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These papers, and all older papers, are also available using the Document Search on the Bank's Development Economics Research website and on the Social Sciences Research Network.3758. Japan's changing industrial landscape. (Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima)3759. Telecommunications and the World Trade Organization: the case of Mexico. (Bjorn Wellenius, Juan Galarza, Boutheina Guermazi)3760. Evaluating training programs for small and medium enterprises: lessons from Mexico.  (Hong Tan, Gladys Lopez Acevedo)3761. Is skill-biased technological change here yet? Evidence from Indian manufacturing in the 1990. (Eli Berman, Rohini Somanathan, Hong W. Tan)3762. Measuring the initial impacts on deforestation of Mato Grosso's program for environmental control. (Kenneth M. Chomitz, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff)3763. Openness can be good for growth: the role of policy complementarities. (Roberto Chang, Linda Kaltani, Normann Loayza)3764. Poverty traps and nonlinear income dynamics with measurement error and individual heterogeneity. (Francisca Antman, David J. McKenzie)3765. Privatization: trends and recent development. (Sunita Kikeri, Aishetu Kolo)3766. Do workers' remittances reduce the probability of current account reversals? (Matteo Bugamelli, Francesco Paterno)3767. China's pattern of growth: moving to sustainability and reducing inequality. (Louis Kuijs, Tao Wang)3768. Road freight logistics, competition, and innovation: downstream benefits and policy implications. (Mark Dutz)3769. Nonperforming loans in Sub-Saharan Africa: causal analysis and macroeconomic implications. (Hippolyte L. Fofack)3770. Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross-country evidence. (Fabio Schiantarelli)3771. Labor market distortions in Cote d'Ivoire: analyses of employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector. (Nicolai Kristensen, Dorte Verner)3772. Sweetening the carrot: motivating public physicians for better performance. (Ariadna Garcia-Prado)3773. Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns. (Warren H. Hausman, Hau L. Lee, Uma Subramanian)3774. Innovation and development around the world, 1960-2000. (Daniel Lederman, Laura Saenz)3775. Growth trends in the developing world: country forecasts and determinants.  (Elena Ianchovichina, Pooja Kacker)3776. Health effects and pesticide perception as determinants of pesticide use: evidence from Bangladesh. (Sushmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, Mianul Huuq)3777. Pesticide traders' perception of health risks: evidence from Bangladesh.  (Sushmita Dasgupta, Craig Meisner, Nlandu Mamingi)3778. Micro and macro-level approaches for assessing the value of irrigation water. (Robert C. Johansson)3779. The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights : the political and economic consequences of a corrupt privatization. (Karla Hoff, Joseph E. Stiglitz)3780. An analysis of the 2002 Uruguayan banking crisis. (Luis de la Plaza, Sophie Sirtaine)3781. Policy and planning for large infrastructure projects: problems, causes, cures. (Bent Flyvbjerg)3782. Who cares about relative deprivation? (Martin Ravallion, Michael Lokshin)3783. Paper walls are easier to tear down: passport costs and legal barriers to emigration. (David J. McKenzie)3784. Trade costs, export development, and poverty in Rwanda. (Ndiame Diop, Paul Brenton Yakup Asarkaya)3785. A framework for evaluating alternate institutional arrangements for fiscal equalization transfers. (Anwar Shah)3786. Fiscal decentralization and fiscal performance. (Anwar Shah)3787. Public health in India: an overview. (Monica Das Gupta)3788. Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies. (B. Essama-Nssah)3789. Sri Lanka's migrant labor remittances: enhancing the quality and outreach of the rural remittance infrastructure. (Esperanza Lasagabaster, Samuel Munzele Maimbo Sriyani Hulugalle)3790. Health systems in East Asia: what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers? (Adam Wagstaff)3791. Mexico: human capital effects on wages and productivity. (Gladys López-Acevedo, Monica Tinajero, Marcela Rubio)3792. Measuring the impact of the investment climate on total factor productivity: the cases of China and Brazil. (Uma Subramanian, William P. Anderson, Kihoon Lee)3793. Creating a Poverty Map for Azerbaijan. (Angela Baschieri, Jane Falkingham, Duncan Hornby, Craig Hutton)3794. Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys. (Deon Filmer)
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