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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro … and micro approaches cast doubt on some widely heard generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate …
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The debate around retrenchment of pension systems became really popular in the 1990’s after the pioneering experience of Chile in 1981.The disastrous outcomes of the Chilean reform were widely known by the 2000’s although no relevant steps backwards were taken. This paper analyses...
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If poverty and nutrition are issues also of social justice and the commitment that a democratic state makes to its citizens (namely, ridding the country of hunger and malnutrition and also of ensuring food security) then the discipline of economics needs to pose its problem differently. The...
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This paper explores issues relating to informal trade in the SAARC region. It spells out the reasons underpinning … illegal trade in the South Asian region. Further it focuses on the estimated size and composition of informal trade in the … region and highlights its relationship to formal trade. The study examines the modalities under which such trade prospers. It …
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crops in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trade regulations. [IFPRI Brief No.13] …
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This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a manner as possible. For...
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50 percent. The paper analyses its continuation in the growth of the economy in general and the development of trade and …
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Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) introduced by the EU in January last. Despite loss of GSP benefit on textiles, Indian...
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Mathematical formulations of Frank D. Graham’s theory of multicountry multicommodity trade have not provided … numerical methods for finding the world trade equilibrium. Graham was in possession of such methods but his writings do not … reveal what they were. This paper proposes an algorithm for finding Graham’s world trade equilibrium. Modifications to the …
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. Assuming plausible enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the biggest-ever round of international trade … shoulder the political costs of adjustment to freer trade and a stricter set of rules. URL …
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