The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have led to … questions about the sustainability of the PRC's growth. The commonly used argument is that the PRC is too dependent on external … measure the contribution of external demand to GDP growth. In this paper, the authors propose two measures that provide a more …

structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …

household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration … can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating trade opportunities. However, market-led integration in South … highly integrated trade, investment, and production space. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper …

This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the role of trade and structural transformation as potential drivers of … the labor income share. Using cross-country data, both at the national and sectoral level, we find that trade openness is …

damage in a three-stage model of North-South trade. In stage 1, outsourcing firms in the North (e.g., United States [US] and …

patterns of world trade, accompanied by a remarkable level of internal migration within the country. Hundreds of millions of … Chinese workers have moved from inland areas to coastal cities, contributing to the PRC's manufacturing growth and export … surges. However, alongside this significant reallocation in labor and increased economic growth, the redistribution of the …

This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the …, both geographic concentration and industrial specialization began to decrease, resulting in an increased similarity of … specialization. The result is robust when using instrumental variables to deal with possible reverse causality and omitted variable …