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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - 2007

We discuss recent empirical research on how globalization has affected income inequality in developing countries. We begin with a discussion of conceptual issues regarding the measurement of globalization and inequality. Next, we present empirical evidence on the evolution of globalization and...

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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

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 …

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International Trade and Child Labor : Cross-Country Evidence

Edmonds, Eric - 2004

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 …

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Assessing the Benefits to Developing Countries of Liberalization in Services Trade

Whalley, John - 2003

This paper discusses the potential impacts of services trade liberalization on developing countries and reviews … problems yielding only a clouded image of likely impacts on trade, consumption, production, and welfare …

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What Explains Skill Upgrading in Less Developed Countries?

Pavcnik, Nina - 2000

Although many developing countries have experienced growing income inequality and an increase in the relative demand for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to...

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An Alternative View of Tax Incidence Analysis for Developing Countries

Shah, Anwar - 1990

section sets out some implications for country lending programs, both by type of country and level of development, and …

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Recent Trade Liberalization in the Developing World : What is Behind It, and Where is it Headed?

Whalley, John - 1989

towards trade policy in a number of countries, with less commitment than earlier to import substitution and more interest in … outward-oriented development strategies. Conditionality in World Bank and IMF lending programs appears important in Africa …

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Coalitions in the Uruguay Round : The Extent, Pros and Cons of Developing Country Participation 1,2

Hamilton, Colleen - 1988

This paper both documents the involvement of developing countries in coalitional activity in the current GATT Uruguay round thus far, and provides a rudimenting evaluation of the pros and cons of the different options for them as far as coalitional strategies are concerned. The main conclusions...

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Do Developing Countries Lose From the MFA?

Trela, Irene - 1988

This paper provides estimates of both national and global welfare costs of bilateral quotas on textiles and apparel using an applied general equilibrium model which covers bilateral quotas on exports of textiles and apparel negotiated between three major developed importing countries (the US,...

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