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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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This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966410
movements of real wage in the informal sector in India and how this affects poverty at the state level. The basic result on …
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Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …
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For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two mighty giants on the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts...
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The Indian economy has observed significant trade reforms since the mid 1980s, and the Indian manufacturing sector has rapidly increased its integration with the world economy. In this paper, we ask the question: did the increased trade integration create or destroy jobs in the Indian...
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Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many … developed Global Income Distribution Dynamics (GIDD) tool, this paper assesses the distribution and poverty effects of a …
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For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two "mighty giants" on the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793469