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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; … - 2016

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are … response to parametric reductions in the cost of offshoring. We identify qualitative conditions under which wages and welfare … by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories …

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On Trade Policy Preference and Offshoring Ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries

Ornelas, Emanuel - 2016

Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries (SDT) constitutes a central feature of the GATT/WTO system. Its formal goal is to foster export-led growth in developing countries. Its theoretical foundations and empirical support are, however, weak at best. In particular, SDT...

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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...

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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

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Agricultural trade and development: A value chain perspective

Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan - 2015

The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...

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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy": What roles for tourism linkages?

Honeck, Dale - 2012

Pro-poor tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic diversification initiatives. Although often neglected as a serious policy option - and consequently most of its potential still remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at...

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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System after Doha

Srinivasan, T. N. - 2002

The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, launched a new round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) and a work programme (WP) for the WTO involving the negotiating agenda and steps for meeting the challenges...

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Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam

Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Hoang; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2022

Using eight rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning 16 years and exploiting the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) in 2001 as a large export shock, we investigate the impact of this shock on intergenerational occupational mobility in Vietnam employing a...

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