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global south. The textile and clothing industry is the largest foreign exchange earner and the largest employment provider in …-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate … wage bill of export-oriented firms in India actually rose during this period. However, the aggregate state-level wage bill …
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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This paper compares the performance of the Mexican economy with that of the rest of the region over the past 20 years, based on the available economic and social indicators, and with its own past economic performance. Among the results it finds that Mexico ranks 18th out of 20 Latin American...
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level of economic inequality, the institutional strength and law enforcement capacity of the state, and whether there are …
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level of economic inequality, the institutional strength and law enforcement capacity of the state, and whether there are …
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have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …
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for women and men). We obtained no significant inequality effects after national trade reforms. We analyze the impact on … poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two … points and no effect on income inequality. …
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processes are, per se, sufficient for poverty reduction and inequality abatement. Abundant work has analyzed the link between … tariff reduction, poverty levels and inequality in both developed and developing countries. Gains from trade are generally … trade, poverty and inequality by analyzing the impact of trade liberalization through two main transmission channels: prices …
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wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income … by the Argentine economy in the 1990s as well as the widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled labor came as a …
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