We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a … simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources ('guns … free trade in such a setting, the gains from trade have to be weighed against the possibly higher resource costs of …

The paper purports to examine the implications of a free education policy and trade liberalization on the child and …

POLITICS AND ECONOMICS IN THE DETERMINATION OF ITS INVESTMENT, PRODUCTION, TRADE AND PRICING POLICIES. THIS UNIQUENESS, NO …

Strategies for trade liberalization in developing countries when time preference rates are heterogeneous across … with the higher rate of time preference is generally the strategy of free trade with wielding market power if the country …

limited. In both countries, some standards and technical regulations (STRs) seem designed to be barriers to trade, but much … of systems in developing countries to avoid the mistakes of those who came before, and to make the abuse of STRs as trade …

This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for … international trade, economic growth and technological change, dramatic increases in world trade in goods, services and financial … assets in last decades are statistically documented in Chapter 2. Theoretical studies of economists on international trade …

after formally choosing free trade as their development strategies, in a more general fashion than the existing tariff …

In this paper we analyse the dynamics of trade patterns in the six largest industrialised countries and in eight fast … growing Asian economies. For each of these countries we study the shape of the sectoral distribution of an index of trade … far as the degree of persistence is concerned: the former have in fact a highly persistent trade pattern, whereas the …

the worldwide liberalized trade policies in agriculture, which raise the price of the economy’s primary exportable … of the agricultural trade liberalization policies, e.g. the removal of the indirect farm subsidies, the paper argues that …