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Trade, Trade Policy and Poverty: What Are The Links?

Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

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 …

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Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If "getting policies right" is wrong or infeasible,...

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Khandelwal, Amit; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the reallocation of output within firms through changes in their product mix. Empirical work has accordingly shifted its focus towards multi-product firms and their product mix decisions....

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Free Trade and Long-Run Growth

Ben-David, Dan; Loewy, Michael B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

What is the impact of movement towards free trade on output? Can this impact permanently affect output levels, and more importantly, will it have an impact on steady-state growth rates? This paper provides empirical evidence showing how countries have exhibited substantial increases in their...

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Growth and Macroeconomic Performance in Spain, 1939-93

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

After presenting trends in aggregate performance within a comparative convergence framework, this paper explores institutional and macroeconomic features as the ultimate explanations of Spain's post-war growth performance. The following main phases are distinguished: the autarchy period...

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty: What have we learned in a decade?

Martuscelli, Antonio; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and … income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some suggest that this is not true for very poor countries, but this is not …

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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

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`1992': Trade and Welfare; A General Equilibrium Model

Gasiorek, Michael; Smith, Alasdair; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

barriers and the changes in production and trade flows with the rest of the world. Welfare changes by country are reported and …

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Country Asymmetries, Endogenous Product Choice and the Speed of Trade Liberalization

Cabrales, Antonio; Motta, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We analyse the effects of trade liberalization on firms' decisions and profits, and on consumers' welfare, in a product differentiation model with countries of different size. Firms decide product specifications at the beginning of the game, in which autarky is followed by trade liberalization...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

diminishing work is associated with a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a … large role in this relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates … explained by falling poverty and therefore improved capacity to afford schooling. …

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