Trade Liberalisation and Export Performance in Selected Developing Countries

The Rhetoric and Reality of Trade Liberalisation in Developing Countries

The paper reviews the evidence of the impact of trade liberalisation on the economic performance of poor developing countries with respect to trade and the balance of payments, economic growth, poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, and the distribution of income between countries, and finds that trade liberalisation has not delivered the benefits expected. Economic the...

Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

This paper examines the impact of the revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries using data from cases of the Competitive Needs Limits (CNL), a feature of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on “super competitive” GSP beneficiaries and aim to reserve the GSP benefits for other “less competitive” GSP eligible countries. The empirical ...

Country-specific Determinants of Intra Industry Trade Types of Agricultural Sector in Selected Developing Countries

Trade liberalisation, skill-biased technical change and wages in developing countries: a model with heterogeneous firms

This paper analyses the effects of trade liberalisation and technical change on real and relative wages. It builds a model with monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and two countries, North and South, and solves it numerically. Skill-biased technical change, caused by decreases in the price of imported equipment as a result of reduced trade costs or falls in its world price, tends to i...

Promise or pitfall? The limited gains from agricultural trade liberalisation for developing countries

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