, inflation stabilization, trade liberalization, greater openness to foreign investment, and privatization, that he believed would … prior ten-year period. Second, the corresponding growth increase for trade liberalization episodes is 2.66 percentage points …

results suggest that trade in capital may have a larger impact on wages than trade in goods …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years. Despite many … studies' has established certain patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalization episodes, and may hence …

We explore the relationship between greater exposure to trade (as measured by openness) and child labor in a cross … countries that trade more have less child labor. At the cross-country means, the data suggest an openness elasticity of child …. When we control for the endogeneity of trade and for cross-country income differences, the openness elasticity of child …

also discusses perceptions about international trade in over 40 countries at different levels of development, including …This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its … perceptions on trade's overall benefits for the economy, trade's effect on the livelihood of workers through wages and jobs, and …

We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and … the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reductions in U … and formal sectors. This gap and the aggregate labor productivity gain from the export-induced reallocation of workers …

through the lens of trade, fiscal, and debt reforms in the developing world offer relevant, practical lessons for recovery in …