exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization … - innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and …This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …