After several decades of “state-capitalism” characterized by import substitution policies, Bolivia implemented in 1985 … a New Economic Policy (NEP) following neo-liberal ideas of free trade, privatization, and liberalization of capital … help modernize Bolivian industry, improve productivity, increase exports, stimulate growth, and reduce poverty. This paper …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap …

measure of living standards; Mexico’s poverty rate of in 2012 was almost identical to the poverty rate of 1994; real …

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …

and youth - over the last two decades. The paper shows that while Tunisia has significantly reduced poverty between 2000 … and 2019, the profile of the poor has not changed much: poverty remains concentrated in rural and western regions, mainly … agriculture and construction. Moreover, the share of the vulnerable Tunisian population at risk of falling into poverty is quite …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of …

, when this may not be the case. Incorrect conclusions as to how trade surges and technology contribute to wage inequality …This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition … into the component factors of trade surges in low wage products and technological change that has preoccupied the trade and …

Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but … empirically tests the effects of trade on wage inequality in a differentiated panel framework where countries are classified … pure 'trade'- effects, supporting the Heckscher-Ohlin predictions of the effects of trade on wage inequality once the …