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Although the dispute over China's exchange rate regime intensified in the run up to the Seoul G20 Summit, pressures for across-the-board protectionist measures have been contained, for now. The 8th Global Trade Report shows that the countries with large current account surpluses have not been targeted unduly in recent months.

The world has now faced the most severe global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Governments have responded to the crisis with many initiatives, often with implications for the openness of their national economies to global markets. While the primary objectives have been to support demand and thus economic activity and employment, recognition of cross-border spillovers has led to calls for international cooperation and t...

The Seventh Report of Global Trade Alert, drawing upon over 1200 investigations of state measures, reveals that while 2010 has seen a substantial recovery in world trade, governments have continued to discriminate against foreign commercial interests. Moreover, recovery does not seem to have affected the rate at which governments resort to protectionist measures. One reaction to this finding is to argue that the discrimination cannot be that s...

Sub-Saharan Africa spends almost 10% of its GDP on infrastructure, but electricity, roads and sanitation are inadequate almost everywhere in Africa. This book examines how governments currently procure infrastructure, and how they might do so more efficiently in the future.

This book reviews trends in international prices and trade patterns of key food commodities, and assess the incidence of food price changes in a number of developing countries using household level data on sources of incomes and consumption patterns.

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This report presents a set of concrete proposals of increasing ambition for the reform of the international monetary system. The proposals aim at improving the international provision of liquidity in order to limit the effects of individual and systemic crises and decrease their frequency. The recommendations outlined in this report include: / Develop alternatives to US Treasuries as the dominant reserve asset, including the issuance of mutual...

This volume provides empirical details of how the import protection landscape changed alongside the events of the 2008-9 economic crisis.

This book, first published as an eBook in December 2008, collects essays from world-class economists on what global leaders must do to halt the slide towards protectionism.

This book, first published as an eBook to coincide with the November 2008 G20 meeting in Washington, provides the views of some of the world's leading economists on what world leaders needed to do to stabilise the economy.

The global financial crisis has changed finance and the global economy forever. The debate over its causes and consequences has only just begun. This book brings together VoxEU.org columns written during the height of the storm from June to December 2008, offering a glimpse of history in the making through the eyes of some of the world's leading economists. To help place individual contributions within this historical sequence, an appendix upd...

This book, first published as an eBook shortly after the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008, outlines the fears of some of the world's leading economists that the unfolding financial market meltdown had the potential to trigger a massive and prolonged recession that would destroy millions of jobs worldwide and the savings of countless households.

The global financial crisis of 2008/9 is the Great Depression of the 21st century. For many though, the similarities stop at the Wall Street Crash as the current generation of policymakers have acted quickly to avoid the mistakes of the past. Yet the global crisis has made room for mistakes all of its own. While governments have apparently kept to their word on refraining from protectionist measures in the style of 1930s tariffs, there has bee...

The G20 meeting in London in spring 2009 was a historical moment of global cooperation to deal with the global financial crisis. This book collects essays from leading economists, first presented as an eBook in January 2009, advocating many of the policies that were eventually agreed on, including the headline-grabbing global fiscal stimulus.

The global financial crisis is often defined by the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008. This book, first published as an eBook three months prior to the collapse, recognises that a global crisis was already well underway. It highlights how losses in the US subprime market had spread beyond the confines of the US mortgage sector and the borders of the United States, how risk spreads had ballooned and liquidity in ...

The authors in this volume - trade experts from across the world - identify the perils of allowing Doha to flounder, and the hard choices governments must make to break the current deadlock. Published ahead of the April 2011 gathering of WTO members in Geneva to determine the future of the Doha Round multilateral trade negotiations.

This volume seeks to facilitate, and in the process develop methodologies for, rigorous impact evaluation of trade-related interventions.

The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is in limbo and negotiators faces a difficult "trilemma": to implement all or part of the draft agreements as they stand today, to modify them substantially, or to dump Doha and start afresh. At this critical juncture, this CEPR/World Bank volume aims to provide a better empirical basis for informed choices.

This Vox book presents a collection of essays by leading European and US economists that offer solutions to the crisis and proposals for medium- to long-term reforms to the regulatory framework in which financial institutions operate.

The Eurozone's life-threatening crisis in May 2010 was halted when Eurozone leaders and the ECB took strong measures in May. But these were palliatives not a cure.The crisis is not over, according to the dozen world-renowned economists whose views are contained in this book. The Eurozone rescue needs to be completed. More needs to be done.The Eurozone "ship" is holed below the waterline. The ECB actions are keeping it afloat for now, but this ...