This study analyzes the impact of trade on cross-country inequality using a panel data set from 65 developing counties … over a long period 1970-2008. This study differs from the existing literature on distributional impact of trade by … explicitly noting the importance of development stage in shaping the link. The analysis shows that the effect of trade on …

markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have … favor some industries over others. This leads to the following question: is openness to trade and FDI alone sufficient to … developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. …

since the great depression of 1929. Post World War II economic history can be thought of as evolving within two distinct …

significantly undermines the formal banking system elasticity of growth; (3) there is a trade-off between growth and welfare from …

This paper uses data on 11 industries in 85 developing countries to show that trade times matter for import and export … longer. This is the first time that imports and indirect exports have been considered in the firm-level literature on trade …