This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …, estimates of the extent of Chinese poverty in any year are greatly influenced by the assumptions made. China’s record of …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …

The question that needs to be asked with regards to the impact of tourism on Jamaica is do we in Jamaica know the real …

In April 2005, the research paper into Assistance to Tourism: Exploratory Estimates, was released. It is the first … comprehensive attempt to quantify the extent of assistance to tourism on a comparable basis to that for other industries in … Australia. While care is needed in interpreting the results, the estimates suggest that tourism receives a lower rate of …

city launching a tourism program.<BR> …