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The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't ; an African case study
Grootaert, Christiaan; Kanbur, Ravi; Oh, Gi-taik - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000920024
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Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market
Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293663
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Why Do Trade Negotiations Take So Long?
Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083302
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An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output
Frankel, Jeffrey A; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
second stage suggest that every one percent increase in trade (relative to GDP) raises income per capita by roughly 1/3 of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789088
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Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty
Kanbur, Ravi; Sumner, Andy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Two decades ago, 93% of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income (LICs). Now, 72% of the … world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). The dramatic shift has been brought about by fast growth in a number of … global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207525
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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528529
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Structural Adjustment, Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty: A Methodology for Analysis
Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661633