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 …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of trade in productivity growth in a sample of 30 sectors in 25 EU … industries and only to a lower extent result from a shift towards higher productivity activities. Trade is found to be an … associated with efficiency gains, but intermediate good exchange and trade with New Member States exert a particularly strong …

The paper presents the dynamics of trade diversity with respect to stages of development in the European context. The … (Imbs and Wacziarg, 2003), EU27 countries are characterized by high degree of trade diversity (on average, EU27 countries … of them registered a reconcentration of trade structures. Obtained estimation results confirm positive relationship …

to European and global samples of countries. It analyzes both the commodity structure of Polish trade and the …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …

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 …