This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …

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 …

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 …

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …

China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it … has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the … heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts …

the Bay of Bengal countries overcome divisions that impede the flow of trade in goods and services, people and ideas …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

improved trade facilitation could bring huge gain as a large part of Indo-Pacific trade has remained unrealized. The trade … transaction cost is one of the major trading barriers prohibiting the growth of Indo-Pacific intra-regional trade. The study … reinforces that improvement in infrastructure and connectivity that leads to less trade transportation costs should be a …