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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific

Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...

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Trade, foreign investment, and wage inequality in developing countries : exposure to foreign trade raises the skill premium in countries with a large stock of educated workers and...

Cigno, Alessandro - 2015

Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...

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Can trade policy help mobilize financial resources for economic development?

Drábek, Zdeněk; Laird, Samuel - 2001 - Manuscript date: 29 August, 2001

The linkages between trade and resource mobilization are complex and not well defined in theory. To what extent does trade policy affect resource mobilization and what are the mechanisms? We argue that trade policy is a key factor of influencing the domestic fundamental balance between aggregate...

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FDI inflows and poverty reduction in Botswana : an empirical investigation

Magombeyi, M. T.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15

This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from … 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The … investigate the relationship. To ensure robustness, the study uses three poverty reduction proxies which are household consumption …

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