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growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty, and inequality … several other large countries are part of this group, so well over half the population of the developing world lives in these …, even as growth in the rich countries and the rest of the developing world slowed. The post-1980 globalizers are catching up …
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country regions, thereby alleviating poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way toward those …Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first …
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Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open … results with the impact of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. The … the rest of the world. Foremost among the own reforms is liberalization of barriers against FDI in business services. …
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The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … macroeconomic effects and microeconomic effects in terms of poverty, the authors use the representative household approach with … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …
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The author offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization … their way out of poverty. After discussing links between poverty, economic growth, and trade, he reports modeling results … showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all goods market distortions in world trade. The author focuses on …
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In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to … implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in developing countries. They discuss trade policy … to trade policy as a tool for poverty alleviation. The authors examine the patterns or models of trade policy that have …
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and export subsidies results in gains to the world more than four times greater than either the FTAA or the EU …-MERCOSUR agreement. This shows the continued importance to the world trading community of the multilateral negotiations …
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poverty and inequality. He finds that growth represents an important means for reducing poverty in the developing world. When … economic growth is measured by survey mean income (consumption), there is a strong, statistical link between growth and poverty … reduction. When economic growth is measured by GDP per capita, the statistical relationship between growth and poverty reduction …
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, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a … find no evidence that SMEs reduce poverty. Finally, they find qualified evidence that the overall business environment …
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When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary systematically with average income. The authors document this...
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