We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies … pursued over time, Kenya's export growth has been sluggish and its contribution to economic growth is still limited …. Notwithstanding diversification efforts, exports are still strongly geared towards primary agricultural goods. Whereas the empirical …

the interplay between extractives and economic development. Just as 'the resource curse' fails as a generic explanation on … to diversify, options for pacing development, and appropriate performance measures. …

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

-added ('value-added ratio') in exports consistent with the objective of achieving economic development through an export …Is the emphasis placed in trade and industry policy-making in developing countries on the share of domestic value …-oriented development strategy? This paper examines the rationale behind this policy emphasis, first by revisiting the conventional case for …

local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used … toward costs of acquiring imports from that same market, and vice versa. Using dis-aggregated transactions data for Chinese … scope. Using a structural model, we estimate that the simultaneous export and import in a given country reduces export and …

Community customs union. Trade within the East African Community is now free from import duties, and partner states have adopted … a three-band common external tariff. This paper assesses how the customs union has supported intraregional trade and … industrialization, in particular through the development of competitive smokestack-free industries. It concludes that regional …

I study how people understand and reason about trade and which factors shape their views on trade policy. I design and … run large-scale surveys and experiments in the U.S. to elicit respondents' knowledge and understanding of trade. I also … ask about their perceived economic gains and distributional impacts from trade and their views on trade restrictions and …

escalation. Yet neoclassical trade theory - and modern Ricardian trade models, in particular - predict that welfare … tariff escalation increasing in the extent of downstream returns to scale. A quantitative evaluation of the US-China trade …