International Trade

Competition is a core element of economic growth, but empirical evidence on how competition affects productivity in the Latin America and the Carib...

The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far mo...

Firms of different sizes play different roles in organized markets and societies. This report focuses on the particular role that larger firms - fi...

This analysis of the extent of trade integration of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the global economy as well as within the region over the...

Iran has received much attention from a geopolitical and regional standpoint, but its economic challenges have not attracted a similar degree of in...

This book analyzes the Central Asian economies of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from their buffeting b...

The EU has pursued many trade pacts across the world. This is part of its foreign policy: as the third largest economy in the world and lacking har...

Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global e...

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the history of the modern global eco...

Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a false system of economic t...

This publication is compiled to provide quality and timely statistical data for the monitoring, evaluation, analysis, research, and promotion of th...

A groundbreaking exploration of US-China relations as seen through the lens of international finance Rising tensions between China and the United S...

Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In...

In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and ...

The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationshipA timely, fluid, readable assessment ...

The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Dati...

Low growth has become the economic default in the West. While China and other Asian Tigers continue to steam ahead, western commentators either arg...