How do you assess the economic health of a country? To get a full picture, you would need to look at a few different indexes. One helpful indicator is a nation’s terms of trade (TOT). This metric ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. President Donald Trump should clarify the goals of his trade agenda and align them with his broader promise to “drain the swamp” by ...

We study the process of external adjustment to large terms-of-trade level shifts—identified with a Markov-switching approach—for a large set of countries during the period 1960–2015. We find that ...

AI-driven digital freight matching platforms are transforming the brokerage landscape, helping shippers and carriers automate workflows, boost utilization, and navigate the lingering freight recession ...

A characteristic common to the commodity-exporting developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa is that movement in their terms of trade is a key determinant of macroeconomic performance and has an ...

Trade organizations welcomed an announcement by President Trump two weeks ago of a trade deal with Vietnam. Now, exporters in Vietnam say they are still confused by the agreement. Here's a bit of a ...

To many today, the idea that free trade brings peace looks like bygone naïveté at best and neoliberal apologism at worst. Contrary to the aspirations of the late twentieth-century free trade moment, ...

Global trade brings to mind images of sophisticated container ports, bustling rail hubs, modern superhighways, broadband Internet connections, and complex trade agreements. But trade is equally – if ...

New trends in global trade—especially the rise in services, global value chains, and the digital economy—are opening up important economic opportunities for women. Trade has the potential to expand ...