In this article, we review the literature on the measurement of trade costs in international trade with a special …

against using data that has been adjusted to increase cross-country comparability to study within-country patterns over time …

fluctuations in the 1880s and 1890s is smaller in the new index than in the old. More tentatively, unemployment increases over time …

mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the … ‘big wave’ phenomenon is both flatter and extends back further in time to 1891. Solved completely is the previous puzzle of …

Sen's axiomatic approach to poverty measurement and is based upon an aggregate poverty index that is additively … resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty …

power to that when totally unemployed, we establish the appropriate cut-off point for the poverty trap and upper rate …

in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such … consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a … can help explain the persistence of poverty. …

important since democracy is, on the whole, for specified reasons likely to enhance poverty reduction. …

This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …