It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to … gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the … promise of agricultural trade liberalization is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are …

external trade and investments. Being a recipient rather than a donor of official development assistance ASEAN is handicapped … in playing the role of champion in trade and investment liberalization. What ASEAN most realistically can do is to serve …

The World Trade Organisations 2004 Trade Policy Review of Singapore (WTO-TPR Singapore 2004) depicts the small and … outward-oriented economy as one of the most open country to international trade and investment. The review highlights the … trade. However, the WTO-TPR Singapore 2004 highlights several key areas of concerns : (a) the commitment to multilateral …

liberalization of services trade would affect Pakistans competitiveness. Focusing on the opportunities and risks of such …

An interesting contemporary research question in trade theory deals with the possibility of rising wage inequality … proof of the phenomenon by arguing that liberalizing trade in skill-linked intermediate product is likely to increase … skilled-unskilled wage gap across the globe. Our model has the feature that a trade-induced shock can reduce the price of the …

relation to the liberalization of trade in services. Since Korea underwent accelerated liberalization of the service sector in …