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An updated assessment of the trade and poverty nexus in Latin America

Giordano, Paolo; Li, Kun - 2012

Despite the growing political priority given to making trade work for the majority in Latin America, a notable gap exists in the knowledge about the distributive impacts of trade integration. This study attempts to fill this gap: it surveys the most recent contributions to the mainstream trade...

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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for … gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … inequality costs (gains), which arise because trade tends to exacerbate income inequality: 45 countries face a trade-off, while …

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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Porto, Guido G.; Rijkers, Bob - In: Journal of international economics 120 (2019), pp. 1-45

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Impact of EU agricultural policy on developing countries : a Uganda case study

Boysen, Ole; Jensen, Hans G.; Matthews, Alan - In: The journal of international trade & economic development 25 (2016) 3/4, pp. 377-402

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Poverty reduction through regional integration : technical measures to trade in Central America

Reyes, José-Daniel; Kelleher, Sinéad - In: Journal of economic integration 30 (2015) 4, pp. 644-679

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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...

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A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...

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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China

Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …

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Boats and tides and "Trickle Down" theories: What economists presume about wellbeing when they employ stochastic process theory in modeling behavior

Anderson, Gordon - 2012

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated …

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