Research Library

Global Finance Research Library

Rethinking Trade And Finance 2015

Rethinking Trade And Finance is an annual Trade Finance research report published by the ICC is essential reading for the entire trade finance industry. The report brings focus to bear on the consequences of recent bank regulatory changes that have significantly increased trade finance due-diligence requirements and costs. The research report then highlights how growing regulatory burdens, increasing costs and diminishing risk appetites have caused many banks to reduce market participation which is contributing to the worldwide shortage of trade financing. Read or download Rethinking Trade And Finance

World Trade Statistical Review 2016

The World Trade Statistical Review is the World Bank’s new flagship statistical publication. Like its predecessor, International Trade Statistics, the aim of the publication is to show the latest trends in world trade and to improve understanding of global trade patterns. The new structure of the World Trade Statistical Review allows for more comprehensive information about trade and trade policy developments to be provided, and in a more timely way. This new publication will be released online in July each year, bringing it closer to the reporting period. Read or download World Trade Statistical Review 2016

Doing Business 2017

The World Bank Report, Doing Business 2017 is the 14th annual Global Report on Business Regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business 2017 presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economies over a long period of time. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms of business regulation have worked, where and why. The Global Report on Business Regulations measures 11 aspects of regulation affecting the life of a business. Read or download Doing Business 2017