The impact of trade openness on poverty has been in the limelight for a few decades now, since most developing … effects of trade openness on poverty. We find that poverty has a negative and significant relationship with total trade …, imports, exports and merchandise trade. The human capital (education) has negative impact on poverty. We also find that …

This paper underlines the influence of trade diversification on GDP per capita growth. Using methodologies developed by … confirm that trade diversification has a positive effect on growth. However, this positive effect of diversification tends to … intensive margin (old traded flows), extensive margin by new partners (geographic diversification) and extensive margin by new …

Current negotiations of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda include proposals for an agricultural special safeguard … wheat and maize trade data, we show that a global excess supply shock may trigger a Q-SSM for one country and a P-SSM for …

) are individually impacted by each sector's export activity. I utilize newly available survey data which quantify sector … children working within that sector, particularly in manufacturing. Thus the argument that high-export sectors will have higher …

In this paper, we consider the impact of establishing export processing zones on environmental policy. The model … even if firms located in the export processing zone have cleaner technology than those in the domestic zone. …

In this paper, we consider the impact of establishing export processing zones on environmental policy. The model … even if firms located in the export processing zone have cleaner technology than those in the domestic zone. …

American (LA). By controlling for trade openness, the share of manufacturing in GDP, and the trade of pollution …This paper investigates how trade of "dirty" goods with the USA can affect the environmental pollution in Latin … growing imports of those goods from the USA. Since the effect of "dirty" imports from the USA is larger than the effect of …

American (LA). By controlling for trade openness, the share of manufacturing in GDP, and the trade of pollution …This paper investigates how trade of "dirty" goods with the USA can affect the environmental pollution in Latin … growing imports of those goods from the USA. Since the effect of "dirty" imports from the USA is larger than the effect of …

effect of corruption on bilateral trade. First, exports rather than imports are found to be affected due to corruption and … estimator using the gravity model of trade, we study the interaction between domestic and partner-country corruption and the … treatment effect of a country joining the GATT-WTO on bilateral trade. The results highlight two sources of asymmetry in the …