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We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …
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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 …
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We examine the impacts of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare and poverty in … macro effects and micro effects in terms of poverty we use the representative household approach with actual intra … negative implications for the overall macro economy, household welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade deteriorate …
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We develop a new framework for the analysis of the impact of trade liberalization on the wage structure. Our model focuses on the decision of workers to accumulate firm-specific skills, by "on-the-job" training, knowing that this means their future wages will have to be negotiated, and that the...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse developing countries' participation so far in the current round of services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. The paper analyses developing countries' negotiating positions, as evidenced by their multilateral negotiating proposals; their initial...
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The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...
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Recently, it has become apparent to developing countries in the WTO that their limited bargaining power has, in fact, been a stumbling block to obtaining desired negotiation outcomes in the multilateral trade system. Thus, to execute any fundamental changes to the status quo, there was a need to...
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The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091949
The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. The author reviews the relevant literatures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009538012
More than 170 years ago, Frédéric Bastiat noted in his masterly work Economic Sophisms that the “opposition to free trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated...
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