ÚVERY SVETOVEJ BANKY V KONTEXTE LIBERALIZÁCIE OBCHODNÝCH VZŤAHOV ROZVOJOVÝCH KRAJÍN

Linkages among international trade, economic growth and poverty eradication have gained again increased attention in policies of the World Bank which has been criticized for its uniformed attitude towards developing countries and to too rapid liberalization reforms. Paper tries to contribute to the debate on the World Bank's trade related activities on the basis of comparison of economic development of a group of the developing countries which have liberalized their trade relations with the assistance of the World Bank's trade related loans with a group of the countries which have not used them. The comparison is based on the analysis of index of determination trends and GDP growth rate trends are analysed using Richard's curve.