-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy. TOC:Introduction.- Dimensions of Quality … Problem in Developing Countries.- Theories of Quality Choice.- Income Distribution, Trade Policy and Export Quality.- Wage … Policy, Standards and the Labour Market.- Inter-Linkage Between Skill Formation and Export Quality.- Dirty Exports and …

This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms' extensive margins (export participation and exit … probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs … and firm-level export are combined and an instrumental-variable approach is utilized. The results show that the imposition …

-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy in the short run. …-intensive, high value-addition and high-quality goods, export-led growth may not be a poverty-reducing strategy in the short run …