This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …

Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large … exposure to international trade, and access to technology across the country. We assess the extent to which exposure to foreign …. In our work, we also extend much of the literature to consider the interplay between trade and technology on labor demand …

Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub … disaggregated data for trade and tariffs (HS six digit level) and follows a simple analytical model by Milner et al. (2006) to … quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization. We extend the literature in two principal ways: First, we estimate …

This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia …-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency …, either unilateral or in connection with bilateral, regional or multilateral trade agreements, can be greatly facilitated by …

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 ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

policies, particularly in a dollarized economy, highlighting the complex implications of trade measures on firm performance and …