This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …

We quantify and explain the firm responses and worker impacts of foreign demand shocks to domestic production networks … estimates of firm responses suggest that Belgian firms pass on a large share of a foreign demand shock to their domestic … in foreign demand propagate through a small open economy and affect firms and workers. Our results suggest that the way …

explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing … India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African …