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This paper examines if and how deeper economic integration with high-income nations impacts industrial performance. It exploits Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004 as a source of variation in the degree of market integration with Germany. Using data on Polish manufacturing firms...
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As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide...
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This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990 … trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines regional and individual labor market responses to those one-time shocks … shocks. Next, the paper documents rich margins of adjustment induced by the trade reform at the regional and individual …
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In the last decade Morocco undertook substantial, if gradual, trade liberalization by reducing tariffs, reforming trade … regulations and signing free and preferential trade agreements with several regions and countries, including the United States … paper analyzes the impact of input tariff reduction on different margins of trade with emphasis on export markets and …
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Services as a share of gross domestic product and in foreign direct investment flows have increased in importance both globally and in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia. So has the need for both academics and policymakers to understand the impacts of services liberalization in...
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This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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This paper employs a 52-sector, small, open-economy computable general equilibrium model of the Tanzanian economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in...
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an anti-trade, anti-primary sector bias in government assistance policies. This paper provides new annual estimates of …
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This paper estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages, employment and unemployment in … higher employment probabilities. This indicates that the bulk of the impacts of trade reforms originates in household … welfare evaluation of trade policy. …
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Trade policies can promote aggregate efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally create both winners … and losers. From an incomes perspective, trade liberalization can raise gross domestic product per capita, but rates of … realize the growth potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising inequality, policies need to better account for …
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