Perspectives on Liberalisation

Perspectives on Liberalisation during Transition

Liberalisation is generally taken to be synonymous with removal of price controls and barriers to trade. In the following paper, the measurement of liberalisation and its impact on economic growth are discussed. The relationship between liberalisation and growth is often studied at the macro-level, but the mechanisms by which liberalisation affects growth are to be found mainly at the micro-lev...

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...

Effects of market liberalisation on smoking in Japan.

OBJECTIVE To document the effect of the liberalisation of the Japanese tobacco market on Japanese smoking rates and on Japanese tobacco industry practices. DATA SOURCE Asahi Shimbun (major daily newspaper) from 1980 to 1996. STUDY SELECTION Review of media coverage on the effects of market liberalisation following the imposition of the USA's section 301 trade sanction. DATA SYNTHESIS The ...