World Bank

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programs. The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: end extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3%; promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country. According to its Articles of Agreement all its decisions must be guided by a commitment to the promotion of foreign investment and international trade and to the facilitation of capital investment.

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    • International Trade Costs for Agriculture and Manufacturing
      October 2020
      Source: World Bank
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 13 November, 2020
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      Data cited at: The World Bank https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/ Topic: ESCAP-World Bank: International Trade Costs Publication: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/escap-world-bank-international-trade-costs License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   The Trade Costs Dataset provides estimates of bilateral trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2015 period. It is built on trade and production data collected in 178 countries. Symmetric bilateral trade costs are computed using the Inverse Gravity Framework (Nov. 2009), which estimates trade costs for each country pair using bilateral trade and gross national output. Trade costs are available for two sectors: trade in manufactured goods, and agriculture. Energy is excluded.
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    • World Bank: Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility
      June 2014
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 30 August, 2017
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      Data cited at: The World Bank https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/ Topic: Comparative Advantage, International Trade, And Fertility Publication: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/comparative-advantage-international-trade-and-fertility License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   The paper associated with this dataset analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage in either female labor or male labor intensive goods. The values of "Share of Female Workers in Total Employment by Sectors" are reported for the full country sample, and OECD and non-OECD separately. The values of "Female Labor Needs of Exports" by country and 5-year interval. The "Year" denotes the beginning of a 5-year period, i.e., year = 1960 denotes an average over 1960-1964
    • World Development Indicators (WDI)
      April 2024
      Source: World Bank
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      Accessed On: 03 April, 2024
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      The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates