Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...

Following the extensive literature on income (growth) elasticities of poverty in developing countries, this paper explores the magnitude of improvement in a country's human development as its per capita income increases. The response is measured in terms of the income elasticity of Human...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the relation between “restrictiveness” of a country's trade policy and its socio-economic well-being as reflected in the indicators of human development. Design/methodology/approach – A recently-developed trade-restrictiveness-index...