This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap …

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

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 …

and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises …

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 …

Starting in the 1960s with the Kennedy Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), nontariff measures … (NTMs) have been replacing tariffs continuously as the core element of trade negotiations. Today they take centre stage in … all EU trade agreements with industrialised and emerging economies. By matching product codes to the rich data of NTM …

The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade preference scheme. The scheme underwent a … imports from the removed beneficiaries. Using the gravity model of trade with high-dimensional fixed effects, we show that the … trade agreement with the EU, in which case the negative effect of removal of unilateral trade preferences is compensated but …

The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the …