This paper emphasizes the relevance of classical transition dynamics for trade policy, particularly for developing … to trade policy reforms. The paper employs a simple growth model to examine these effects, formally developing the …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. We …

of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labour …

factor-based trade models and models of two-way trade and returns to specialization. Sufficient conditions for positive trade …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between … between population growth, trade policy and migration. This is illustrated with numerical examples emphasizing linkages … between changes in the terms of trade and migration patterns. The numerical analysis highlights issues not immediately evident …