World Bank data on trade, a key means to fight poverty and achieve development goals. The dataset is part of the Transparency in Trade Initiative, providing free access to country-specific trade policy information. It was last updated on 2026-04-27 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
Use Cases
- Analyzing trade policy impacts on poverty reduction based on the Millennium Development Goals framework.
- Modeling market access for developing countries based on the rules-based trading system concept.
- Benchmarking country-specific trade policies as part of the Transparency in Trade Initiative.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative World Bank Group.
- Explicitly licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Part of a global initiative (Transparency in Trade) for free data access.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official national and international trade statistics as part of the Transparency in Trade Initiative.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 21:07:00.501580; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Bahrain