South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003 …-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade patterns. Specifically, it estimates the impact of the Common Market … has not considerably increased Uganda's trade with member countries, on average across sectors. The effect, however, is …

and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization …

Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countriesâ …€™ trade policies and their development strategies. However, although greater trade openness promises faster growth for poor …

The current round of multilateral trade negotiations-the Doha Round-presents an opportunity for countries to reap the … benefits of trade liberalization. Unfortunately, a number of misconceptions about the likely impact of trade reforms has, in …) developing countries have much to gain from their own trade liberalization; (ii) preference erosion could be significant for some …

Using two recently constructed measures of trade liberalization dates, this research studies the impact of trade … liberalization on imports, exports, and overall trade balance for a large sample of developing countries. We find strong and … consistent evidence that trade liberalization leads to higher imports and exports. However, in contrast Santos-Paulino and …

cheaper. Increased skill supply further biases technical change in favor of skilled labor. Free trade induces technology that … countries, and therefore amplifies the predicted wage effects of trade liberalization. These features aid our understanding of … educational attainment on skill premia. They also help account for the large and differential effects of trade liberalization on …

dataset covering reforms of domestic product markets, international trade, the domestic financial sector, and the external … financial reforms (and, in particular, domestic financial liberalization, trade liberalization, and agricultural liberalization …) boost income growth. However, growth effects differ significantly across alternative reform sequencing strategies: a trade …