The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

countries between 1990 and 1999. It is shown that intraindustry trade actually causes the convergence of business cycles, while … there is no direct relation between business cycles and bilateral trade intensity. As far as intraindustry trade is … positively correlated with trade, the OCA endogeneity hypothesis is confirmed, although the argumentation follows Krugman (1993 …

There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

During the past decades the global food system changed dramatically with increased trade in high-value food products … increased proliferation of public and private food standards. As a consequence, global food trade is increasingly organised …

, international trade, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor … for or impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to …

, international trade, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor … for or impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

This contribution discusses the development of Austria's trade with the European Union. First, a descriptive analysis … shows that Austrian exports to the European Union were adversely affected by trade barriers during the 1980s and in the … gravity model for a panel of OECD countries confirms positive trade liberalization effects after the country's accession to …

synchronization and trade only for business-cycle frequencies. The co-movements at longer frequencies are negatively related to trade …, so that the overall co-movements and trade tend not to be significantly related. …

We analyse trade between countries of the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance in Eastern Europe between 1950 and 1990 …. Despite central planning of the CMEA, we show that trade could be explained by standard demand factors surprisingly well. We … improved terms of trade with the rest of the world and the CMEA as a whole responded to the oil crisis by intensifying intra …