How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population … protection to stabilize their incomes. Among the shocks to which the absolute poor have been exposed are those created by trade … stability from this type of trade require that the poor are provided with some forms of adjustment assistance. We examine the …

-resource tax effort by exploiting the so-called 'China shock'. Since its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, China …'s non-renewable resource trade has driven up commodity prices, raising resource revenues among exporting countries …-resource trade model might be easing binding constraints to expanding the non-resource sector and presenting an opportunity to …