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This comprehensive report-actually four compartmentalized reports in one-- focuses on policies to improve Brazil's trade performance. Specifically, three questions are addressed: What are the merits of alternative trade liberalization or integration options ? What domestic policies should be...
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2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity … owners of other factors of production, thereby potentially contributing to inequality and poverty within developing countries …
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This new book provides a selection of writings that cover trade, equity and development in Asia. Clem Tisdell, T.N. Srinivasan, Gustav Ranis and others write on countries from Pakistan and India to Korea and Indonesia
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of Global Poverty -- Poverty Location by Size Groups -- Table 1.1 -- Table 1.2 -- Least Developed, Heavily Indebted Poor …, and sub-Saharan African Countries -- Table 1.3 -- India and China -- Implications -- Trade Patterns in Relation to Poverty … -- Table 1.4 -- Table 1.5 -- Table 1.6 -- Poverty, Growth, and Trade -- Does Growth Reduce Poverty? -- The Paradox of …
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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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This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S....
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We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the "deep" impact of trade liberalization and the "hard" effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator variables for...
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Trade facilitation policies intend to simplify administrative processes and accelerate the handling of shipments across borders. Recent research shows that these policies have substantial effects on trade flows. In this chapter, we discuss what the existing evidence for trade implies for the...
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