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and Praveen Penmetsa for developing the database web interface. Xinghao Gong provided excellent research assis-tance. The –ndings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed to the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. The database

Database (2016 vintage), which was used as source of information for 43 economies in the World -WTO Bank Services Trade Policy Database, is gratefully acknowledged. This paper is part of a World Bank research project on trade in services, supported in part by the Umbrella Trust Fund for Trade and Development. 2.

This paper describes a new initiative to collect comparable information on trade policies for services from 103 countries across a range of service sectors and relevant modes of service delivery. The resulting database reveals interesting policy patterns. Although public monopolies are now rare and few services markets are completely closed, we ...

Between 1990 and 2017, the share of female migrants increased by at least 1 percentage point in 75 of the 211 countries with data. In 22 of these countries, the recorded change was of 5 percentage points or more. In contrast, in 67 countries, the share of women migrants declined by at least 1 percentage point during the period 1990-2017.

Abstract This paper uses the World Bank database on deep trade agreements to demonstrate the rapid increase in preferential trade agreements with standards of intellectual property protection that are enforceable and elevated beyond the minimums required in the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement.

viii the long-term debt stock of low-income countries. Within the G-20 creditor group, there have been some important shifts characterized by a marked

Source: Women, Business and the Law database. Aimed at increasing the amount of leave available to both parents and at redistributing childcare responsibilities between men and women, the European Union passed a new directive that tries to address the imbalance in the design of work-life balance policies between women and men that reinforce gender stereotypes and differences between work and care.

The BOS database is the first systematic attempt to capture the decision of the state to participate in firms across the corporate sector. Seven new facts extracted from the World Bank’s new Businesses of the State (BOS) Global Database Project show the state’s footprint in commercial activities is bigger than previously

Table 4 then shows two additional metrics, taken from Scimago, which uses information from the Scopus database. The first is the SJR (SCImago Journal Rank), which is a prestige-weighted citation metric – which works like Google PageRank, giving more weight to citations in sources with a relatively high SJR. I’ve included some of the top ...

June 20 is World Refugee Day. The number of refugees globally rose to 27.1 million in 2021, up from 26.4 million in 2020, setting a new record, according to the newly released UNHCR Global Trends report, and World Bank estimates. The number of people seeking international protection outside of their country of origin has increased 78% since 2011.