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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

though trade and financial flows do not really increase correlations of business cycles between China and OECD countries …

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. …