Recent decades have seen rapid growth of the world economy. This growth has been driven in part by the even faster rise in international trade. The growth in trade is in turn the result of both ...

How has many developing countries' increased participation in international trade affected their economic growth rates, and what implications has this had for the international distribution of income ...

The study finds that Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) boost economic activity, particularly in urban and industrialized areas, ...

One notable finding of the short-term effects of the geopolitical tensions is that they are reshaping trade flows. Since the ...

A dramatic increase in developing country participation in trade has coincided with an equally sharp decline in extreme poverty worldwide. Developing countries now constitute 48 percent of world trade ...

Despite significant advances in country-level analysis of trade patterns in final goods and conventional ... use of non-tariff measures such as technical regulations in developing countries and their ...

Regional trade patterns can be seen everywhere ... on the U.S. and increasing trade with more distant emerging and developing countries. Germany also appears to be focusing more on diversification ...

A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute reveals that geopolitical tensions are reshaping global trade patterns, with the United States and China at the center of the realignment. The analysis, ...

Global trade is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by three major shifts. New technologies are redefining countries' comparative advantages and the types of goods they produce and export.

Advantages of trade alliances for member states: The result of the pattern of world trade is that the producers of primary products in developing countries lose out with low wages and poor ...

After World War II, however, tariffs largely fell out of favor in advanced economies because they often lead to reduced trade ... wealthy countries maintain low tariffs compared to developing ...

The combined force of these shifts can reshape global trade patterns ... processes divided across multiple countries and components traded across borders, developing economies were able to ...