Trade liberalization, social policies and health: an empirical case study. [PDF]
McNamara C.
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Competing Industrial Standards and the Impact of Trade Liberalization [PDF]
The main purpose of this study is to illustrate, with simple trade theory, the relationship between competing industrial standards and trade liberalization.
Iwasa, Kazumichi, Kikuchi, Toru
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Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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Trade liberalization and total factor productivity in Brazil: A vecm modeling. [PDF]
Oliveira de Almeida E +3 more
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Does trade liberalization reduce child mortality in low- and middle-income countries? A synthetic control analysis of 36 policy experiments, 1963-2005. [PDF]
Barlow P.
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Trade and Expropriation: A Factor Proportions Approach [PDF]
An extended small open economy model is developed and used to examine the effect of trade on the illicit expropriation of incomes and the provision of legal services.
Arghya Ghosh, Peter Robertson
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Market regulation and productivity: The case of the Canadian Wheat Board
Abstract Changes to regulatory environments influence firm‐level incentives, which can move the productivity frontier or reposition firms within an existing frontier. Estimating causal effects of policy changes requires a credible counterfactual for productivity in the absence of policy change.
Ryan Cardwell, Pascal L. Ghazalian
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Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter [PDF]
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments.
de Melo, Jaime +2 more
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Global agricultural value chains and food prices
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
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Agricultural trade liberalization, governance quality, and technical efficiency in the agricultural sector of Southeast Asia. [PDF]
Trakem V, Fan H.
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