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Effects of Adjustment Programs on Poverty and Autonomy: Chile, Mexico, and Peru.
Sheahan, J. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1996
The structural adjustment programs of these three countries, like those of many others throughout the world in recent years, have greatly changed previous balances between the state and the private sector, capital and labor, and domestic versus world market influences on the economy. This...
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Impactos Sociales en Uruguay de la Liberalización del Comercio Mundial de la Carne
Borraz, Fernando; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008
In this work we quantify the impact of trade liberalization in the global beef markets over labor income, employment and poverty levels in Uruguay. The adjustment of local beef prices after an external shock to the worldwide price levels is imperfect. Estimations indicate that 76% of a certain...
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325564
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Trade policy and the household distribution of income
Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335217
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137134
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656223
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257001
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Fluctuating staple prices and household poverty in India
Shutes, Lindsay; Ganesh-Kumar, Anand; Meijerink, Gerdien W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The general perception is that high food prices in India have increased poverty and that trade reforms will further … and a model of India's economy. The results suggest that a rise in the global rice price actually provides strong … urban poverty partly offsets the overall poverty reduction. While India's trade measures effectively isolate sectors from …
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Vietnam as a role model for development
Thoburn, John - 2009
Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...
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Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers using the Current Population Surveys
Ebenstein, Avraham; Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 581-595
We link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys from 1984 to 2002. We find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with significant wage effects, while industry exposure has no significant impact. We...
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