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 no matter which of the two official poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2009-2010 led to an...