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The fragility of the evidence on inequality, trade liberalisation, growth and poverty
Mbabazi, Jennifer; Morrissey, Oliver; Milner, Chris - 2002
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationships between income inequality and growth, trade policy and growth, and growth and poverty. We contribute to this literature by exploring the relationships between inequality, trade liberalisation, growth and poverty in a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533086
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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia
Villa, Edgar - 2017
econometric estimates of the volume of laundered assets in the Colombian economy. In the model, the licit sector operates in a … to the economy but only redistributes wealth (for example robbery, kidnapping, and fraud). The paper provides a series of … laundered assets in the Colombian economy in the period 1985 to 2013. The paper assembles a data set whose key components are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969954
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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth
Loayza, Norman - 2017
legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the … capital and labor in a modern economy. Second, it opens the possibility of labor migration from a rudimentary economy with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967818
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The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality Cross-Country Evidence
Loayza, Norman; Maria Oviedo, Ana; Servén, Luis - 2005
This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Along with firm dynamics, informality is an important channel through which regulation affects macroeconomic performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063887
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Export response to trade liberalisation in the presence of high trade costs : evidence for a landlocked African economy
Milner, Chris (contributor); Zgovu, Evious (contributor) - 2003
landlocked African economy. These sources of export taxation are in turn used to explore how export supply would respond to trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001820290
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Are non-tariff measures and tariffs substitutes? : some panel data evidence
Niu, Zhaohui; Milner, Chris; Gunessee, Saileshsingh; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900021
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Trade Policy in Burundi : Reform Without Political Stability
Milner, Chris - 2004
This paper evaluates Burundi's progress with trade policy reform, by comparing earlier analyses of Burundi's trade policies undertaken in the 1980s with that of the WTO's recent Trade Policy Review. Since the mid-1980s Burundi has been trying to reform its trade and macroeconomic policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069203
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Effective Protection, Policy Appraisal and Trade Policy Reform
Milner, Chris; Greenaway, David - 2003
When the effective protection concept was first developed it was widely regarded as a key measure of the structure of protection and became widely deployed. It was however, subject to a theoretical critique on the grounds that it was essentially a partial equilibrium measure, which could not be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078651
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Export Response to Trade Liberalisation in the Presence of High Trade Costs : Evidence for a Landlocked African Economy
Milner, Chris; Zgovu, Evious K. - 2003
landlocked African economy. These sources of export taxation are in turn used to explore how export supply would respond to trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083161
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Effective Protection, Policy Appraisal and Trade Policy Reform
Greenaway, David; Milner, Chris - 2003
When the effective protection concept was first developed it was widely regarded as a key measure of the structure of protection and became widely deployed. It was however subject to a theoretical critique on the grounds that it was essentially a partial equilibrium measure, which could not be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084864