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Global Deflation Alert: World Trade Growth Has Ground To A Halt

• davidstockmanscontracorner.com, by Contributor

Falling rates of global trade growth have attracted much comment by analysts and officials, giving rise to a literature on the 'global trade slowdown' (Hoekman 2015, Constantinescu et al. 2016). The term 'slowdown' gives the impression of world trade losing momentum, but growing nonetheless. The sense of the global pie getting larger has the soothing implication that one nation's export gains don't come at the expense of another's. But are we right to be so sanguine?

World trade volume plateaued around January 2015

Using what is widely regarded as the best available data on global trade dynamics, namely, theWorld Trade Monitor prepared by the Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis, the 19th Report of the Global Trade Alert, published today, evaluates global trade dynamics (Evenett and Fritz 2016). Our first finding that the rosy impression painted by some should be set aside.


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