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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … on net weak early industrialization. Finally, the paper documents that inequality rose in most of Latin America up to …

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Trade And Industrialisation After Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building And Joining A Supply Chain Are Different And Why It Matters

Baldwin, Richard - 2011

Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...

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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization

Jaworski, Taylor - 2020

controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … industrialization in the second half of the nineteenth century. We find that industries and regions more exposed to international trade …

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Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution

Juhász, Réka; Sakabe, Shogo; Weinstein, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization …

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Foreigners Knocking on the Door : Trade in China During the Treaty Port Era

Keller, Wolfgang - 2016

Uneven development within countries suggests that domestic trade frictions are important. Trade flows within a country, however, are rarely observed. We employ a new dataset on trade between fifteen Chinese treaty ports to examine the importance of domestic frictions around the year 1900. The...

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The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone : Background, Developments and Preliminary Assessment of Initial Impacts

Yao, Daqing - 2015

The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) founded one year ago is a trial for China's new round of reform and opening out, which has promised liberalization on capital account and trade facilitation as its main objectives. Here we discuss the differences between the SPFTZ and other free...

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An Evaluation of the Impact of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ)

Yao, Daqing - 2015

In this paper we present evidence as to the effects of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) on China's capital controls. The start of the SPFTZ in September, 2013 was a trial to introduce a combination of exchange rate floating and capital account liberalization into China's macro...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning

Shertzer, Allison - 2014

Zoning has been cited as a discriminatory policy tool by critics, who argue that ordinances are used to deter the entry of minority residents into majority neighborhoods through density restrictions (exclusionary zoning) and locate manufacturing activity in minority neighborhoods (environmental...

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Place-Based Policies

Neumark, David - 2014

Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...

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