The use of trade liberalization to enhance manufacturing productivity has been a commonly applied policy in several … developing countries since the 1980s. This paper proposes a new methodology to estimate the inter-industry productivity …-1998) indicate that inter-industry productivity spillovers exist, are positive, and account for 70% of the increase in productivity …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

Brazil underwent a large trade liberalization process in the 1990s. Over the period, manufacturing employment decreased …

the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect …

Brazil, India, Kenya and Colombia - applying a simulation socio-economic model based on quantified systems approach, for the …

reduction in import tariffs resulting from recent free trade area agreements, on poverty and distribution of income in Brazil …. Trade policy alone is not sufficient for achieving more equitable income distribution goals in Brazil. Without greater … investment in human and physical capital, incomes in most regions of Brazil are likely to lag behind incomes in the South …