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"The authors assess the implications of multilateral trade reforms for poverty in China. They do so by combining …
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liberalization for one village in the Jiangxi province of China, the authors find changes in relative prices and outside village …. Rising income inequalities are a growing concern in China. Whether trade liberalization allows incomes to grow together or to …
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The past eight years witnessed China's phenomenal growth and integration into the world economy, expedited by its … accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. The accession greatly accelerated China's domestic reforms. By the end … of 2007, China was ranked the second largest exporter and third largest trader in the world after its exports grew at …
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"The author discusses regional development patterns in China and examines effective ways of using development aid to …
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"Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This paper attempts to assess what is on the table. It presents the results of the first survey...
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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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