WBI Trade Learning and Capacity Building Program

The final Millennium Development Goal is a global partnership to ensure the economic growth required to sustain progress in all the other goals.  Specifically, it calls for an open, rules-based, predictable, and non-discriminatory trading and financial system. The World Bank InstituteI trade program aims to contribute to achieving these goals. It concentrates on how trade affects development and the economic policy angles of trade integration and negotiations, thus complementing other trade learning programs offered by international, regional, and academic institutions that are more focused on the legal dimensions of trade agreements and their implementation.

The program is driven by demand from governments, partners, and Bank country teams, with most events offered globally and regionally.

WBI Trade Program Briefs and Concept Notes:

• FY 2008

FY 2009 Concept Notes (pdf format):

• Global Core Courses - Trade
• Global Knowledge - Trade
• Middle East and North Africa Trade Integration
• South Asia Multi-year Regional Trade Capacity Building Program
• Sub-Saharan Africa Trade Integration

World Bank Trade Progress Reports:

• FY 2009
• FY 2008
• FY 2007
• FY 2006 (pdf format)
• FY 2005 (Spring | Fall)

WBI Trade Program Progress Reports:
(include brief coverage of WBI trade capacity building and training activites)

• Sep 2008 - Aid for Trade: Harnessing the Global Economy for Economic Development
• 2006 - Independent Evaluation Group -  Assessing World Bank Support for Trade, 1987-2004
• Aug 2005- Trade Progress Report: Doha Development Agenda and Aid for Trade
• Mar 2005- Trade Progress Report: Focus on Country Trade Policy
• Aug 2004 - Trade Progress Report: Focus on Agricultural Trade
• Mar 2004 - Trade Progress Report: Leveraging Trade for Development
• Sep 2003 - Trade Progress Report: Leveraging Trade for Development: The World Bank Agenda
• Mar 2003- The World Bank's Operational Trade Agenda