. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade …

globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the …

An optimal linear world income tax that maximizes a border-neutral social welfare function provides a drastic reduction … in world consumption inequality, dropping the Gini coefficient from 0.69 to 0.25. In contrast an optimal decentralized (i ….e., within countries) redistribution has miniscule effect on world income inequality. Thus, the traditional public finance …

, and the role of such international institutions as the International Labor Organization and World Trade Organization in …

rest of the world. It shows that competitive markets and competitive governments choose Pareto efficient transition …

child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing … countries for banning child labor. Hence, international labor standards and product boycotts may delay the ultimate eradication …