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The Global Forum website tries to keep track of the ever changing landscape of trade analysis, measurement of trade and trade statistics. The site keeps a database of links to over 150 relevant publications, reports, articles and speeches.

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Publications

Canada's State of Trade

Trade and Investment Update - 2010
DFAIT 2010
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2009 was a landmark year. The global economy suffered the worst downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, enduring dramatic shifts in global economic and financial markets in an extraordinarily challenging environment The banking system teetered on the abyss, tested by weak credit markets, a collapse in equity markets, and heightened requirements for liquidity and capital. FromAugust 2008 through mid-2009 output contracted... more »

China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries

Gordon Hanson Raymond Robertson 2008

The explosive growth of China’s economy has been extraordinary. Between 1990 and 2005, China’s exports increased by 25 times in real terms, compared to an increase of about four times in the 12 largest exporting nations .As of 2005, China’s exports accounted for 25% of the total exports of all countries outside of the top 12… more »