will in turn create pressure for raising productivity and increase demand for a more skilled work force. The resulting …

strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously … develop private participation in marketing and export activities while maintaining the country's reputation in international …

agricultural sector and a significant increase in rice productivity. A resulting increase in output has been associated with a …-ante approaches, the authors investigate the implications of the changes in rice productivity and prices for the welfare of households …. They find that the net effects of increased rice productivity and lower rice prices have benefited the poor. Regardless of …

"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that … the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs … export variety on country productivity. Empirical evidence supports their hypothesis. Overall, while export variety accounts …

"The authors assess the implications of multilateral trade reforms for poverty in China. They do so by combining …