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Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization
Finger, J. Michael; Nogues, Julio J. - 2012
pressures for protection in agencies with economy-wide accountabilities. The World Trade Organization's procedural requirements …
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Trade Insulation as Social Protection
Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2013
In a world with volatile food prices, countries have an incentive to shelter their populations from induced real income shocks. When some agents are net food producers while others are net consumers, there is scope for insurance between the two groups. A domestic social protection scheme would...
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Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco
Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2013
The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals-the country's main food staple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the...
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Sustaining Trade Reform : Institutional Lessons from Peru and Argentina
Baracat, Elias A.; Finger, J. Michael; Nogués, Julio J.; … - 2014
Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy and to extend the application of World Trade Organization … the international economy as an exploitive environment. The paper brings out the weakness of international obligations to … economy within the same rules that Argentina has so easily violated. …
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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
Ravallion, Martin - 2013
Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though...
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