India’s Liberalisation Project and the Future of Trade Unions

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes

“Inequality, Trade Liberalisation and Growth”

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth. We use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the effects of inequality and trade liberalisation on growth in a sample of exclusively developing countries. Cross-section (long-run) and panel (short run) techniques are used to test for the effect of inequality on growt...

Trade Liberalisation and Technology Choice

This paper considers the links between trade liberalisation and technology choice in the nonliberalising country. Trade-liberalisation-induced changes in relative product prices have direct effects on equilibrium relative factor returns. The consequent changes in relative input costs may also lead producers to switch to alternative technologies, which will in turn induce a further indirect chan...

Liberalisation, health and the World Trade Organisation.

The contemporary globalisation project of which Baum writes rests on the promise that economic growth benefits all. Originally enforced through Structural Adjustment Programs’ trinity of privatisation, reduced public spending and increased trade liberalisation, it is the benefits of the latter that now dominate the “globalisation is good” argument. So dominant is this claim that it deserves clo...