This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …

potential for export diversification. The OECD ‘mirror’ trade data indeed suggest that many different routes to diversification …-ordination and management of conflicting interests. Moreover, the analysis of trade support services in two African countries points … the trade and investment support network. The lessons for trade capacity building are important for Africa but are also …

Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyse (1) why the large number of regional trade agreements which the Central … Uzbekistan) own WTO accession. During the1990s, many regional trade agreements were signed - arrangements both among the Central … Asian countries vacillated between pursuing regional and multilateral trade policy avenues. The Central Asian countries …

from the House of Representatives from the years 1982 to 2000. Weighted trade policy proxy for each congressional district …

-Ohlin setting entails differentiated trade policies, with a party proposing a high tariff, and the other one a low one. The basic … heterogeneous behavior of parties, protectionism and pro-trade, is endogenously decided, rather than a prior assumed in previous …

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited …

The World Trade Organization, which came into existence at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, is in charge of … administering a plethora of new trade rules. The main thrust of the new rules is to reduce or abolish tariffs and quotas on a wide …

In order to explain the prevalence and persistence of trade protection, a large body of work that departs from the …

productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …