) through quantifying potential long-term economic costs. The paper considers two alternative GEF scenarios in which trade … trade. However, if the world experiences a less severe GEF-induced trade disruption-a strategic decoupling-SSA countries …

panel data of Japanese exporting firms, we examine the sources of the export surge during this period. One view argues that … supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …. Estimating the firm-level export function allows us to assess the relative importance of these demand and supply fact …

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany … an increase in unit labor costs or in its terms of trade, France adjusts relatively less via price and wage changes, and … sector difficulties might be structural. Trade flows relevance and euro area policy constraints highlight th …

This paper studies the relationship between export structure and growth performance. We design an export recommendation … export structure more aligned with the recommended export structure achieve better growth performance, in terms of both … produce export portfolio recommendations covering over 190 economies and over 30 years. We find that economies with their …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects …-level research, and case studies) supports the view that trade openness contributes greatly to growth. Moreover, trade openness does … not have systematic effects on the poor beyond its effect on overall growth. Trade policy is only one of many determinants …

This paper examines different explanations-initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions-of the … Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading …

China's sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … substantially during the past decade. This has rendered trade elasticities estimated using aggregate data highly unstable, with more …

" foreign direct investment, and the empirical literature on trade and growth. Finally we use a numerical simulation model of …

This paper uses an applied general equilbrium model to decompose the effects of changes in trade and technology …-related variables on wages of skilled and unskilled labor between 1982 and 1996 in the United States. The results indicate that trade …-related variables (tariff cuts, improvement in the terms of trade, and the increase in the trade deficit) had little impact on the …

effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners … regional free trade arrangements should be used to accelerate, rather than postpone, needed structural reform. …