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Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...
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world markets. Using a partial-equilibrium, multi-market, international model, the authors analyze the trade and welfare …-South dimension with policies in India, and to a lesser extent China, heavily depressing the world prices of groundnut products at the …
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liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
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Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …
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Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be generalized and needs to be conducted on a country by...
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are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. …
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It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
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One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world …
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Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income...
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