We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …

India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and … decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this …

poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … about 15 percent of India's progress in poverty reduction over the 1990s. The results are robust to pre-reform trends …

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the …

country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) also suggests that countries with a smaller proportion …

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and pove …