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Poverty reduction remains one of the main challenges for Latin America at the end of the 20th century. We argue that poverty in Latin America or at least the 'excess poverty' given the level of income in the region, is a problem caused mainly by high inequality. But, income inequality in the...
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Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala. This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation...
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...
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wealth. We use a two factor general equilibrium model and assume credit markets are absent. We explore the effects of trade … that developed countries need to ensure access to education when liberalizing trade to ensure they reap the potential gains … from trade. …
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Trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both … developed and developing countries. This is in apparent conflict with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should … countries. We develop a simple model of trade with talent heterogeneity and capital market imperfections, and show that trade …
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For Latvia with incoming into the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In paper various indicators of a national economy before and after...
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unskilled labor mobility. As favored regions benefit more from trade, their growing demand for skills drains skilled workers … heterogeneous economy, we show how different regional rates of technical progress due to trade and FDI interact with constraints to … growth rates ave increased both interregional and intraregional inequality. Moreover, growth of skills-based export …
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This paper analyses the contribution of immigration, trade and FDI to wage inequality of native workers in a sample of … key contributors to wage inequality in old EU Member States, while trade is the key source of wage inequality in new EU … Member States. We also show that immigration, trade and FDI have different effects across the wage distribution that are …
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