This volume offers a rousing defense of pro-free-trade policies and their benefits for developing countries. Through cross-country evidence and detailed case studies, Arvind Panagariya demonstrates the need for trade openness for sustained growth and poverty alleviation.

This volume offers a rousing defense of pro-free-trade policies and their benefits for developing countries. Through cross-country evidence and detailed case studies, Arvind Panagariya demonstrates the need for trade openness for sustained growth and poverty alleviation.

Globalization and poverty / T.N. Srinivasan -- Globalization and poverty : what is the evidence? / Emma Aisbett, Ann Harisson, and Alix Peterson Zwane -- International trade, labour turnover, and the wage premium : testing the Bhagwati-Dehejia hypothesis for Canada / Eugene Beaulieu, Vivek...

This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and...