How does international trade affect structural transformation in developing countries? We use data on sectoral … across geographical regions, with a difference in Sub-Saharan Africa, where international trade causes an increase in the …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified …

We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …

presence of international trade and find evidence that both regulation and trade have a significant positive influence on …

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap … exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys … the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade economics literature, assesses their relevance for Latin America and …

between international trade and climate policies. It contributes to the literature from two perspectives: a demand side view … uses general equilibrium trade models to analyse the effect of trade liberalisation on the environment. It shows that a … trade-induced reallocation of production factors towards the most productive firms can explain part of sector-level changes …