This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …

specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small developing country. Among other results, we show that a small … developing economy grows faster than the rest of the world as a result of global fragmentation and trade in intermediates if it … is skilled-labor scarce. We also address the effects of such trade opening on wage inequality. …