Trade and Investment Liberalization and China's Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses

Trade and Investment Liberalization and China’s Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses

Trade and Investment Liberalization and China’s Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses after China’s Accession to the WTO

Forthcoming: World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2005 Agricultural Liberalization and the Least developed Countries: Six Fallacies

Today, agriculture remains the most distorted sector of the world economy. Therefore, agricultural liberalization in the Doha negotiations is rightly the top priority. But the public-policy discourse on the subject remains fogged by a number of fallacies. These fallacies probably originated with the leadership of the World Bank but have now been embraced by the IMF, OECD, Oxfam and the leading ...

trade liberalization and wage inequality between urban and rural labor

this study examins effects of trade liberalization on the wage inequality between urban and rural labor by utilizing the data of micro-level households’ income and expenditures surveys and trade statistics over 2001-2011. the analysis is carried based on the heckscher–ohlin’s theory in international trade and baker’s taste discrimination theory at firms. we use quantile regression and ordinary ...

Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Iranian Economy

The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth in Iranian economy using a Cobb–Douglas production function, which is expanded to take into account political instability and trade liberalization. The empirical results show that in the long run the real export and import duty have positive effect on GDP, while the Labor force and education causes to...