Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade

This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial cris...

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Main Authors:	Constantinescu, Cristina, Mattoo, Aaditya, Ruta, Michele
Format:	Report
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	trade services trade trade policy global value chains trade liberalization commodity prices policy uncertainty trade agreements productivity slowdown vertical specialization
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26112

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description	This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. Current estimates of growth in the volumes of trade in goods and services range from 1.9 percent to 2.5 percent; preliminary high-frequency data suggest that merchandise trade volumes may have grown by slightly above 1 percent. The year 2016 is different from the other post crisis years, in that trade sluggishness is a characteristic of both advanced and emerging economies.
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author	Constantinescu, Cristina Mattoo, Aaditya Ruta, Michele
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title	Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade
title_short	Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade
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Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade

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