Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to …, relative wages for human capital declined by 2 percent during 1995-2002 and increased by 41 percent during 1994-2002 in Poland …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled worker …

, mainstream development economics has not dealt in any systematic way with such concerns and the implications for development … assistance. This paper puts forward a framework for analyzing fragile states and applies it to a variety of development policies …

sequential and simultaneous versions of the game is for players to always fight, independent of their own strength. In our …

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to … those benefits are distributed across and within nations. After discussing the possible impacts of trade facilitation, we … use firm-level data for a wide variety of developing countries to investigate whether it is mostly large firms that …

turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … normal trade relationship status and thus ending the annual threat to revert to Smoot-Hawley tariff levels. We construct a …

European Community in 1986 using new firm-level trade data. We find that (i) the trade policy reform accounted for a large … and entry decisions in the context of international trade. When market entry costs are sunk, policy uncertainty can create … dynamic, heterogeneous firms model we show that: (i) investment and entry into export markets is reduced when trade policy is …

The Agreement on Trade Facilitation (TFA) embodies the first set of new multilateral rules to have been negotiated … that was “harvested” from the broader Doha round. This paper analyzes the outcome of the trade facilitation talks, assesses … implications of the TFA experience for the prospects for new rule-making and cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA …

spillover benefits for non-beneficiary firms resulting in their catching-up in export sales. We find some evidence that the …

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … insulation added substantially to the spike in international prices for rice, wheat, maize and oilseeds. As a result, while … conditional cash transfers that could now provide social protection for the poor far more efficiently and equitably than …