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 …

Economic growth and trade liberalization since the 1970s have led to rapid growth in exports from many developing …

Foreign exchange windfalls such as those from natural resource revenues change non-resource exports, imports, and the … that the response to a dollar of resource revenue is, approximately, to decrease non-resource exports by 75 cents and … increase imports by 25 cents, implying a negligible effect on foreign saving. The negative per dollar impact on exports is …

important since democracy is, on the whole, for specified reasons likely to enhance poverty reduction. …

relationship between gender and poverty. These countries were chosen as they have, under the equal-sharing assumption, very … different gender distributions of poverty. … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …

) bilateral trade openness reduces bilateral cultural distance; (ii) the more differentiated the products, the more trade reduces … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental … bilateral trade openness translates into a 43% standard deviation decrease in bilateral cultural distance. …

inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …

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 …