and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff … revenues, is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with … instead of the usual Gini coefficients. Taken together, the results are strongly supportive of the factor-proportions theory …

accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is highly controversial. This paper brings new evidence on this issue in … and a new index of trade openness. Trade liberalization increases inequality in countries that relatively well-endowed in … suggested by Wood (1994). The results show that trade liberalization increases inequality in highly educated abundant countries …