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International Trade and Poverty Alleviation
Bannister, Geoffrey J. - 2001
Empirical studies suggest that trade reform has a positive effect on employment and income for the poor; however, there are winners and losers. If the transitional costs of trade liberalization fall disproportionately on the poor, trade reform can be designed to mitigate these effects. This...
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International Trade and Productivity Growth : Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries
Choudhri, Ehsan U. - 2000
pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399806
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Domestic amplifiers of external shocks : growth accelerations and reversals in emerging market and developing economies
Gruss, Bertrand; Nabar, Malhar; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2019
External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
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Financial deepening, terms of trade shocks, and growth volatility in low-income countries
Kpodar, Kangni; Le Goff, Maëlan; Singh, Raju Jan - 2019
volatility. Expanding the sample to 121 developing countries confirms this result, although this role of shock-absorber fades …-whether financial intermediation is performed through banks or markets-for macroeconomic volatility, against the backdrop of increased … sector development acts as a shock-absorber in poor countries, dampening the transmission of terms of trade shocks to growth …
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International trade and corporate market power
Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus; Yang, Yuanchen - 2020
This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and … data by sector and agreggate indicators of international trade for the period 2000-17. Greater trade liberalization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299347
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Shock Versus Gradualism in Models of Rational Expectations : The Case of Trade Liberalization
Auernheimer, Leonardo - 1997
This paper provides a new argument for “shock” versus “gradualism” in the implementation of trade policies. In the … an import tariff either immediately as an unanticipated shock, or gradually over a preannounced length of time. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400753
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In Search of WTO Trade Effects : Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly
Eicher, Theo S. - 2009
The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose''s (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...
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The trade impact of China on EMU : is it even across members?
Mikkelsen, Uffe; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012
This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity...
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Inward and outward spillovers in the SACU area
Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Iván; Gwenhamo, Farayi; … - 2013
Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and financial interlinkages. However, shocks to real GDP growth in South Africa do not seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671039
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6½ decades of global trade and income : “new normal” or “back to normal” after GTC and GFC?
Kalra, Sanjay - 2016
Global merchandise trade expanded rapidly over the last 6 1\2 decades and its relationship with global income has seen ebbs and flows. This paper examines the shifts in this relationship using time series data over 1950-2014 and situates it in the current and longer term context. The...
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