This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively … depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be … measured by the residual of an openness function estimated only from structural factors, and on structural vulnerability …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … institutional changes such as product and labour market deregulation have served as catalysts for growth. He then looks at the role …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …

This paper presents the concepts and mesures of growth and poverty, and the complex interrelations between distribution … and poverty reduction. Growth alone will not be able to eradicate poverty, and some specific actions must be directed …