This paper analyses the impact of public infrastructure on the competitiveness and growth of the Senegalese economy … increase in public infrastructure will improve the commercial performance, as well as the growth of the Senegalese economy …

better respected in high income countries. However, the causality between labour standards and growth remains a controversial … issue. The strategies of export-led growth might encourage developing countries to contain the rising process of standards … gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one …

better respected in high income countries. However, the causality between labour standards and growth remains a controversial … issue. The strategies of export-led growth might encourage developing countries to contain the rising process of standards … gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one …

examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when capital markets are imperfect, there is not necessarily a trade …We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions. The first part of the survey … impact of inequality and the positive effect of redistribution upon growth. The second part analyzes several mechanisms …

This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade … empirical studies on the impact of openness (as measured by the protection rate) on growth are not robust. Some studies have …

Vertical intra-industry trade accounts for a large share of trade between countries characterized by similar factor … traded products have similar factor intensities. This paper aims at modelling trade in vertically differentiated goods that …-industry trade can be driven by these differences in technology. …

inequality. However, it is more focused on developed countries and Latin America. This paper investigates the impact of trade … workers, over the period 1975-2002. We provide panel data evidence that trade openness contributes to increasing wage …

. If one country is always better off under free trade, numerical simulations show that the other country and the world as … a whole can be worse off. Trade liberalization can make worse the under-production or the over-production of the risky …

This paper examines the debate over the gains from trade when international differences in the risk perception of … heterogeneous managers provide the basis for trade: the relatively optimistic country exports the risky commodity whereas the … relatively pessimistic country exports the certain commodity. We show that optimal trade policy depends on the choice of the …

This article reassesses the link between international trade and income distribution. We argue that one way to assess … the influence of international trade upon income distribution is to take account of each country’s specific trade patterns … by measuring the changes in the factor content of trade. The econometric specification is based on changes in Gini …