The World Trade Indicators: Tools for Policy Analysis
Trade integration plays an important role in national development and poverty
reduction. This compact, user-friendly, and easily accessible interactive
database contains 126 indicators measuring at-the-border and behind-the-border
trade policy performance and outcome for 208 countries. Drawing from
internationally comparable databases and including some new measures of trade
policy, the database groups country performance around five main pillars: border
protection, such as tariffs and non-tariff barriers on goods and services;
constraints to market access in the rest of the world; the overall business and
institutional environment; trade facilitation; and trade outcomes, such as trade
growth, and diversification. These indicators can be used to benchmark and rank
a country?s policy and outcome performance vis-a-vis partners, and current and
potential competitors on world markets. The database may also be used to compare
changes in policy and outcomes during the last decade.
Wednesday, December 19
11:30 am -1:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A buffet lunch will be served.
*RSVP AND PHOTO ID REQUIRED* Please register on:
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/wbiTrade/reg.htm
For more information contact Lucas Bossard:
Email:lbossard1@worldbank.org; Phone: 202-473-0548
WELCOMING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute?s (WBI) Acting Vice President and
Director of Operations. The latter position he assumed in September 2006 and he
was appointed Acting Vice President of WBI in March 2007. In his more than 20
years in the World Bank, Mr. Nangia?s career has spanned a wide range of
countries and positions, including development work in Africa, East Asia,
Eastern Europe and South Asia, as well as in the Bank's Corporate Secretariat
and Central Accounting group. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nangia served
as Manager, Portfolio and Country Operations, in Vietnam.
INTRODUCTION
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger has been Vice President of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Network since 2004. He provides leadership for the Bank?s
strategic work on growth and poverty reduction and is also the focal point for
economic policy, debt, trade, gender and governance issues. His previous
positions at the Bank have included Director of the Finance, Infrastructure and
Private Sector Group of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC); and
Lead Departmental Economist in both the LAC and the East Asia and Pacific
Regions. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked with the U.S. Department of State
and with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Institute
Ms. Islam is Manager of the World Bank Institute?s Poverty Reduction & Economic
Management Division. Prior to joining WBI, Ms. Islam was Staff Director of the
World Bank's World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for
Markets.She was advisor to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in the
Bank's Development Economics group. Ms. Islam has also worked in World Bank
Operations in several regions. Her professional expertise includes public
expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies, trade and
exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization, financial sector reform,
and private sector development.
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist, World Bank Institute
Mr. Zanini is a Lead Economist at the World Bank Institute (WBI). Since late
2002, he has led WBI?s trade team, working on capacity building and external
training programs in trade policy reform, trade facilitation, and the
multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade agreements. He has more than 17
years experience at the World Bank, first as a country economist and then as an
evaluator of the performance of Bank programs. Prior to working at the World
Bank, he taught at the University of California, Davis.
DISCUSSANT
Michael Moore
Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, George
Washington University
Mr. Moore is the founding Director of the Institute for International Economic
Policy at the George Washington University?s Elliott School of International
Affairs. He served as Senior Economist for International Trade at the White
House Council of Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003. He teaches
courses on international economics, at the undergraduate, master's, and PhD
levels. Mr. Moore's most recent research is on antidumping procedures in the
United States, and U.S. and European steel industries and their adjustment to
international competition.
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