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The Bank is undergoing a re-organization of its trade work. Work under internal Bank groupings has been brought under the direction of new International Trade Director, Uri Dadush. Some of the key programmes, their location within the Bank structure, and contact information below:

Initiative: Global Integration and New Trade Agenda
Description:
  • Training, policy services, research, capacity building
  • Regional trade facilitation projects
  • Global Learning Development Network
Bank home: WBI
Contacts: Economist, Philip English
Web Info: www1.worldbank.org/wbiep/trade/COURSES.html
Initiative: WTO 2000 Capacity Building Project
Description:
  • Help developing countries participate more effectively in the next round of WTO negotiations
Bank home: WBI
Contacts: Policy and Rsch Mgr, Bernard Hoekman
Web Info: www1.worldbank.org/wbiep/trade/WTO_2000.html
Initiative: Research Programmes
Description:
  • Trade facilitation, regulatory reform and standards
  • Trade, technology, FDI and growth
  • Competition and Anti-dumping
  • Landlocked countries
  • Regional Integration
  • Trade in Services and Agriculture
  • Databases on services, standards, integration, etc.
Bank home: DEC
Contacts: Senior Adviser, David Dollar
Web Info: www.worldbank.org/research/trade/index.htm
Initiative: Integrated Framework
Description:
  • Multi-agency technical assistance to low-income countries
  • Bank leads diagnostic studies
  • Links trade and national development plans (PRSPs)
Bank home: PREM
Contacts: Senior Economists, Ataman AksoyYvonne Tsikata
Web Info: if.wto.org
Initiative: Country Assistance Strategies
Description:
  • Advise on integration, liberalisation, customs and tax administration, infrastructure, product standards and export policies
  • Impacts of WTO accession
Bank home: country teams
Contacts: Regional Chief EconomistsCountry Chief Economists
Web Info: www.worldbank.org/cas/
Initiative: Investment Climate Assessments
Description:
  • Identification of features most important for productivity and income growth
  • Tracking of changes in the investment climate
  • Comparison of countries or regions within countries.
Bank home: country teams
Contacts: Country Chief Economists Rapid Response Unit, Geeta Batra
Web Info: rru.worldbank.org/CountryAssessments/index.asp

World Bank Institute (WBI) Development Economics Group (DEC) Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM)

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