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Taking another look at policy research on China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Ianchovichina, Elena; Martin, Will - 2019

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export …

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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...

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Can taxes help ensure a fair globalization?

Adjognon, Guigonan Serge; Soest, Daniël Pieter van; … - 2019

This paper analyzes whether taxation can be successfully used to reduce the incidence of labor informality and achieve higher equality in a globalized economy. To this purpose, it develops a two-area model: a developed country and an emerging country. The two areas differ according to the size...

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