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This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …
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dampening sharp capital flow movements in response to global shocks? What are the near- versus medium-term trade-offs of …
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underlying drivers of rapid yen appreciations, highlighting the key role of carry-trade and the zero lower bound as important …
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We reassess the connection between capital account openness and capital flows in an empirical framework that is grounded in theory and makes use of previously unexplored variation in the data. We demonstrate how our theory-consistent regressions may overcome some ubiquitous measurement problems...
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In this paper, I review evidence on changing global specialization in labor-intensive exporting. Production of apparel, footwear, furniture, and related products are how many low-income countries first enter export manufacturing. Just as China’s rise as a powerhouse in these goods supplanted a...
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countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro-trade … implications on countries’ (i) incentive to violate trade agreements, and (ii) ability to leverage the dispute settlement … tariffs to punish trade agreement violators …
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We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of globalfinancial shocks on emerging markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reducesthe sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital flow shocks. A broad set ofmacroprudential tools contribute...
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producers from unfair trade practices, they have frequently been used as weapons of protectionism even when dumping has not … ethically and concludes that President Barack Obama “needs to be bold on trade” by starting out with correcting the popular view … inherent claim on the funds of consumers. The only ethical way of obtaining consumer funds is through voluntary trade. Using …
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Various groups have been demanding that discussions of labor standards be included in all future trade negotiations … links to more than 100 papers on trade is also included …
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