This paper investigates the link between trade and fertility in developing countries. Household fertility is determined …-intensive manufactures, then trade raises the demand for female labour in the manufacturing sector, thus lowering fertility. …

To the extent that trade policy affects trade flows between countries, the ramifications can be far-reaching from an … of trade between countries on changes in the rate of reduction in the size of the income gap that exists between them …. Export and import data are used as the criteria for determining bilateral trade between major trade partners, resulting in …

One of the most contentious issues arising from the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations was the attempt to harmonize …

of the problem: the theoretical and empirical relationship between tied aid and trade flows. In the first part, we … evaluate the theoretical implications of the use of tied aid as a hidden trade policy. The possibility that aid flows directly … from the well-known strategic trade policy literature, showing that tied aid cannot be considered equivalent to an export …

of trade in parts and components. Products are more internationalized and less identified with any particular country … paper explores the implications of these developments in the context of a standard trade model. Component specialization in …

techniques to disentangle the effects of international spillovers via inflows of trade and FDI on total factor productivity (TFP …

This paper examines the direction of causality between international trade and cross-country income differences in … differences on bilateral trade, and instruments for trade are used in regressions to determine the causes of income dispersion …. Results of these cross-country estimations show that more similar countries trade more, while trade appears to increase …

This article estimates gravity models for both directions of trade between the EU-15 and the NMS-10. The two groups … membership) trade costs. The results highlight the asymmetry in intra-bloc trade when the latter is heterogeneous: country size …, income, factor endowments and the various trade barriers or facilitators are found to be significant determinants of trade …

Employing data on US immigrants and trade with 59 home countries for the years 1996-2001, we compare the extent to … which refugee and non-refugee immigrants affect US trade with their home countries and provide the first evidence of … variation in the US immigrant-trade relationship across immigrant types. We also consider the abilities of refugee and non …