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fertilizers were also relaxed over this interval. Poverty rates fell sharply from 59 percent to 37percent over this interval, leading some to attribute this remarkable outcome to globalintegration6. Income inequality rose, driven mainly by differences between urban and ruralareas7. Over 80 percent o[r]

The Role of Law in the Green Economy155become not only significant in number but also among the most sophisticatedinstruments used in advancing trade liberalization, market access, and otherpolicy objectives. This expansion of agreements―in terms of number, depth(i.e., the way in which[r]

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor
economic institutions. The objective of this paper is to explain this apparent anomaly.
Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably
stabilization, introduction of positive real interest[r]

comes in the form of five-year time-series, cross-sectional observations for 80 nations, 1950 (or independence) to 1997. We focus on change indicators of liberalization, arguing that level indicators of government policies in political economic research are generally too imprecisely specified[r]

strategy for raising skilled labor force using various fiscal sources is necessary. Third, using marketing methods to polish Vietnam’s images in the international community will make its soft power stronger then its current lobbying and promote the FDI inflows. This should be conducted not only by t[r]

measured the costs of protection for 25 highly protected sectors in China and found that the short-term costs of trade liberalization would be substantial both in terms of lost domestic output (a drop about USD 40 billion, or 32% of pre-liberalization output in the protected sec[r]

Winters, McCulloch, and McKay 2004 write in their insightful and comprehensive survey that “there are no direct studies of the poverty effects of trade and trade liberalization.” Goldberg[r]

More recently, an analysis of 73 developing countries indicated that “per capita growth rateshave increased among the globalizing economies in the 1990s relative to the 1980s” (Dollarand Kraay, 2001). Recognizing that most of these countries had been engaged in wide-rang-ing economic reforms, the au[r]

Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further
multilateral trade liberalization. “Less preferred” countries are increasingly concerned about the
discrimination they confront, while “more preferred” developing countries worry that WTObased
liberalization of trade will[r]

by Destination Country 34720.5 Shares of MLT Exports Covered, 2005–09, by Destination Region 351x ContentsThe bursting of the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2008 andthe ensuing global financial crisis were associated with a rapid decline in globaltrade. The extent of the trade