The volume consists of four main sections. The first section covers the theoretical foundations of the structural change literature.
This 1999 volume investigates the link between trade and factor mobility, particularly labour migration, from theoretical and empirical perspectives.
We focus on the 2004-14 period of trade liberalization in Peru (a major beneficiary of trade integration), which allows for methodological improvements relative to similar studies.
... and catching-up: the neoclassical economic theory-based approach, the Japanese practice-based one, the 'systems or innovations' view and Michael Porter's 'Diamond'. Despite some overlapping (especially between the last three) we aim ...
... European Economic Review, 49 (4), May, 809–32. Amiti, Mary (2005b), 'Are uniform tariffs optimal?', in S. Jayasuriya (ed.), Trade Theory, Analytical Models and Development: Essays in Honour of Peter Lloyd, Cheltenham, ...
The idea that asymmetrical realities largely explained relations between Mexico and its North American neighbours was used as the rationale for differences in their respective treatment of fundamental issues. On a trinational scale, ...
World Bank, Washington, D.C. Ravallion, Martin. 2001. “Growth, Inequality and Poverty: Looking Beyond Averages.” World Development 29(11):1803-1815. Ravallion, Martin. 1990. “Rural Welfare Effects of Food Price Changes Under Induced ...
Theme of this essay is critical arguments of disestablish trade barriers towards the European Union (EU) and its underlying economic theories in respective to the Single Market Programme (SMP), its aims and if they are achieved in terms of ...
In this book, Paul Oslington underlines the contradiction between the prominence of job losses in political conflict over trade liberalization, and trade economists usually working with full employment models. This...
This graduate textbook brings together many of the issues that are considered staple reading for a course in trade and development: trade and labour market, trade and public economics, topics in the theory of the second best, foreign aid, ...