This paper reviews recent theory and evidence on trade and industrial policy reform in developing countries. First, the …

countries in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade. Second … that compound each other. The evidence to date, on the employment and trade fronts, is that the disadvantages may have more …

, entrepreneurship, trade openness, and macroeconomic stability …

have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of imports. Assuming reasonable spreads between …

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 …

their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …