Intro -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1. External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil -- 2. Belindia Goes to Washington: The Brazilian Economy after the Reforms -- 3. External Liberalization, Growth, and Distribution in China -- 4. Opening Up the Hungarian...

In the last ten years, there has been a sea change in trade and related policies in emerging markets. This results from autonomous reforms undertaken in conjunction with macro-economic stabilization programmes. Many non-tariff measures have been eliminated and tariffs, now the principal trade...

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is based on a large firm-level dataset, tariff data by sector and agreggate indicators of international...