"Institutions are a major field of interest in the study of development processes. The authors contribute to this … discussion concentrating our research on political institutions and their effect on the non-income dimensions of human …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … reduction factor, and trade liberalization, which increases the price incentives to stay in agriculture. A recursive … decisions. Their analysis shows that trade liberalization does contribute to structural poverty reduction. But unless increased …

"This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that … side, he demonstrates that under a standard political economy model of trade protection, productivity directly influences …