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Trade Liberalization and Inequality in Canada in the 1990s

Schwanen, Daniel - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …

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Vietnam as a role model for development

Thoburn, John - 2009

Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...

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Poverty impacts of changes in the price of agricultural commodities: recent evidence for Argentina

Moncarz, Pedro Esteban; Calfat, German Guido Calfat, Sr.; … - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), … - 2014

Argentina, like other land abundant country, benefited greatly from the increase in the prices of agricultural commodities. However, and in despite of the benefits at the macro level, with a large share of the population with low and medium-low incomes, the increase in agricultural commodity...

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Policy and politics : trade adjustment assistance in the crossfire

Laincz, Christopher A.; Matschke, Xenia; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016

The United States introduced Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) as part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act to … dampen the adverse impact of increased trade on workers. Applications to receive TAA require approval from the Department of …

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Fostering Argentina's integration into the world economy

Grundke, Robert; Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2019

Ever since the early 20th century, Argentina has failed to fully reap the benefits that integrating into the world economy can offer. With exports and imports only accounting for less than 30% of GDP, Argentina is significantly less integrated into the world economy than other emerging market...

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Investment responses to trade liberalization : evidence from U.S. industries and establishments

Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2017 - This draft: November 2017

This paper examines the effect of a change in U.S. trade policy on the domestic investment of U.S. manufacturers. Using … uncertainty exhibit relative declines in investment after the change in trade policy. Within industries, we find that this …

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Policy and Politics : Trade Adjustment Assistance in the Crossfire

Laincz, Christopher A. - 2016

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A Case Study on Trade Liberalization : Argentina in the 1990s

Beker, Victor A. - 2012

The link between trade and wages is embodied in the Stolper-Samuelson theorem and its generalizations. The Stolper …-Samuelson logic is that trade affects relative factor rewards by changing relative prices. Since in Argentina non-skilled labor was … complete surprise. This paper gives some reasons for this unexpected result. In Argentina, trade liberalization meant mainly …

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TRADE AND LABOR MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM THE COLOMBIAN TRADE LIBERALIZATION PROCESS

Jaramillo, Christian; Tovar, Jorge - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2006

The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of trade on the sectoral labor markets. Using the Colombian … National Household Survey and comparable trade-related data, we study how changes in trade policy affect the sectoral demands … represented by the Colombian trade liberalization process of the early nineties. The results suggest that sector tariff levels …

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

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