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This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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based on several empirical strategies suggest that workers"pay"for their entitlement to severance pay through lower wages …
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issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two …, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and …
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This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade … infrastructure on trade between African countries. They also consider how regional trade agreements relate to intra-African trade … flows. Using trade data from 2003 to 2004, they find that improvement in ports and services infrastructure promise …
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globalization (trade, foreign direct investment, remittances), policies (government expenditure, inflation management … their effects on average incomes. The paper finds that trade and foreign direct investment tend to benefit the richest …
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This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
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This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
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Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect of an important empirical regularity: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's...
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The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …
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involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …
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