"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through …

of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … modeling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …

associated with an increased demand for skilled labor, the opposite is true in China. This paper 'a product of the Growth and … Investment Team, Development Research Group' is part of a larger effort in the group to study the links between globalization and …