TAFTA: Fuelling Trade Discrimination or Global Liberalisation?

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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“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...

Asymmetric trade liberalisation, sector heterogeneity and innovation

Innovation, mark-ups and the degree of trade openness vary substantially across sectors. This paper builds a multi-sector endogenous growth model to study the in‡uence of asymmetric trade liberalisation and sectoral di¤erences in the degree of product market competition on the e¤ect that trade has on R&D investments at a …rm level. I …nd that di¤erences in the degree of competition generate lar...