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This paper, motivated by the so-called North-South problem in trade, analyzes ex ante trade preferences and the source of potential political conflicts regarding trade lib- eralization. Developing a dynamic extension of the traditional Heckscher-Ohlin model with imperfect labor mobility and...
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This paper develops a framework for studying the effects of higher trade openness on the wage distribution that emphasizes within-industry labor reallocation across firms, strong skill-productivity complementarities in production and heterogenous fixed export costs across firms. Assuming no...
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poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …
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In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to … implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in developing countries. They discuss trade policy … to trade policy as a tool for poverty alleviation. The authors examine the patterns or models of trade policy that have …
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How to implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in Developing countries …
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The phased elimination of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement has been one of the most compelling trade policy reforms of the early twenty-first century, and has brought in significant changes in the industrial structures of the countries of the global south. The textile and clothing industry is the...
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In the 1870s and 1880s, the scientist, logician, and pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce possessed an advanced knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the...
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This paper looks into whether and how sub-national regions can benefit from a country’s economic openness. Using data on the Philippines, it first notes marked disparities across its regions as reflected in economic and social indicators. The dominance of Metropolitan Manila in the national...
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This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...
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