and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises …

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …

This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia …-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency …, either unilateral or in connection with bilateral, regional or multilateral trade agreements, can be greatly facilitated by …

argued in this paper, however, it is not all that easy to lay our hands on robust facts. Quantitative analyses of trade …, for instance, Africa's poor stand to gain from further trade opening under the Doha Round into one in which they would … stand to lose. Most studies agree though that trade opening probably adds to aggregate welfare, but gains are small and …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and … pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric ways with respect to (i) the nature of unilaterally optimal trade … the pros and cons of deep trade integration as a remedy, involving well-enforced labor standards both upstream and …

and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises …

Gains from trade come a certain degree of specialisation among trade partners. Specialisation in the case of an … agriculture-based developing country might be feared to imply a higher reliance than ever on low skill labour. Trade might thus be … agricultural productivity. In this paper, we suggest that it needs not be the case. We show that trade openness can in fact trigger …

multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic … efficiency, political economy shocks, and self-enforcement concerns, with an emphasis on the recent literature that views trade …