We present a dynamic quantitative trade and migration model that incorporates downward nominal wage rigidities and show …

The paper reviews the evidence of the impact of trade liberalisation on the economic performance of poor developing … countries, trade and the balance of payments, and economic growth, and finds that liberalisation has not delivered the benefits … activities in developing countries. -- Trade liberalisation ; trade policy ; income distribution ; poverty …

Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However …, developing countries – in particular the least developed – face difficulties in making trade happen and turning trade into … economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched at the 2005 World Trade Organisation conference in Hong Kong – aims at …

This Article brings to the attention of those public servants involved in the design and negotiation of free trade … negotiating in a bilateral forum. Rather than critiquing the free trade agreement for its particular provisions, this Article … examines the U.S. policy of negotiating bilaterally with developing countries as opposed to multilaterally in the world trade …

We quantify the relationships between deep trade liberalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we … focus on the effects of Deep Trade Agreements (DTAs), and we rely on a structural framework that simultaneously enables us … effects on FDI; and (iii) obtain partial DTA effects on trade and quantify the impact of DTAs on FDI through trade. We obtain …

Europe. This paper uses OECD data to assess the relative impact of regulation on differences in economic performance across … countries since 1990. The impact of regulation is compared first to that of macroeconomic policies such as fiscal policy … performance is related to regulation, the connection to regulatory change in the nineties is less easy to demonstrate. The impact …