financial crisis. Most of these layoffs affected migrant workers, who have typically lacked employment protection, tend to be … employment shock was short-lived. By mid-2009, the macroeconomic stimulus and other interventions had succeeded in boosting … the crisis, and notes the biases associated with alternative ex post efforts to measure the employment effects of the …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American … and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India … and Caribbean exports of non-fuel merchandise. In general, China's and to a large extent India's growing presence in world …

This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of … direction of the trade specialization pattern of China and India. Labor-intensive sectors (both unskilled and skilled) probably … have been negatively affected by the growing presence of China and India in world markets, while natural resource and …

Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … India also begins to integrate into global production chains and expands exports of manufactures, there seems to be …

India.Part 2 compares two business as usual scenarios with a set of alternate scenarios based on policy interventions on the … results suggest that energy externalities are likely to worsen significantly if there is no shift in China's and India …'s energy strategies. High energy demand from China and India could constrain some developing countries' growth through higher …

The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in … between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can …

and India on Argentina's industrial employment. They use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate … the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest … that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …