the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these … inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing worlds differently. Using … static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater territorial …

Emerging world countries have experienced over the last two decades a significant change in their trade patterns. Bold … trade reforms have been followed by rapid rises in international trade levels. However, despite these radical changes, we … know remarkably little about how changes in trade patterns are affecting the evolution of regional inequality in the …