This paper describes how different policy distortions have been impeding better integration of Brazil's external and … promote better allocation of resources across the economy. The main conclusion of the paper is that Brazil could gain … significantly from opening to foreign trade. Yet, for Brazil to take full advantage of the opportunities that external integration …

This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil's trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To …

wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … productivity and stronger growth rates are attributed to trade reform, its contribution to medium-term poverty reduction is rather …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … had significant, positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and … in the aggregate index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ( "learning" ). The authors use … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However …, aggregate productivity gains during the overall period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average …

In this paper, the authors use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to examine the impact of trade reform on …-invariant) characteristics of workers (innate ability) and any additional productivity that obtains in the context of employment in the specific …

goods will likely lead to small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of …