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Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries’ trade policies and their development strategies. However, although greater trade openness promises faster growth for poor countries, it also presents risks to those with small...
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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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Doha Agenda -- The Challenges to Reducing Poverty through Trade Reform: Overview -- Estimating the Effects of Global Trade …
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This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender … of lifting people out of poverty, it is more likely to be pro-poor when initial inequality is low. High inequality … directly lowers the rate of poverty reduction by hindering growth.Ample evidence shows that, in spite of recent improvements …
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poverty. Trade liberalization can create economic opportunities, but women and men cannot take advantage of these … effects of trade expansion to poverty, especially in less developed countries, where gender inequality is usually more … pronounced. Although the literature includes numerous analyses on the links between trade and poverty and between gender …
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countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book …'s largest conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and … perspective that pays attention to environmental and social vulnerability and understands the linkages between poverty reduction …
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Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in countries with high endowments of unskilled labor,...
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This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its …
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