Abstract The environmental implications of international trade appear to be associated with public backlash against liberalization and efforts at greening trade. Because support is essential policy-making alike, we examine the trade–environment nexus from a opinion perspective. We investigate whether negative attitudes toward are in fact fueled by concern over its consequences. argue that affec...

BACKGROUND Trade and investment liberalization (trade liberalization) can promote or harm health. Undoubtedly it has contributed, although unevenly, to Asia's social and economic development over recent decades with resultant gains in life expectancy and living standards. In the absence of public health protections, however, it is also a significant upstream driver of non-communicable diseases ...

This paper is dedicated to the recent reforms in Uzbekistan’s foreign trade policy and process of country’s accession World Trade Organization. It pays special attention chemical industry trade; with partial equilibrium model employed, expected changes imports chemicals, budget revenues consumer welfare are revealed. Two scenarios — mere tariff reduction or abolition country-specific discrimina...

This paper compares sequential trade liberalization through a preferential trade agreement (PTA) and one-shot multilateral trade liberalization with respect to the speed with which countries attain multilateral free trade. We build a three-country oligopoly model, including one developing country whose domestic firm initially uses old technology. Firm-level adoption of new technology and countr...

Why does the current wave of globalization create more public concern/opposition than previous rounds of trade liberalization? This paper identifies a key difference between globalization and trade liberalization that could be responsible for it. It is shown that while both globalization and trade liberalization create inter-sector income distribution, the former also creates intra-sector incom...

As one of the first countries to sign a Structural Adjustment Loan with the World Bank, Kenya spent much of the 1980s and 1990s liberalizing its economy. This reform program included significant changes in trade policy, as the country’s post-colonial import substitution policies were replaced with an outward-looking, export promotion program. Though the country achieved targeted successes in th...

The overall goal of this paper is to examine the impacts of trade liberalization on China's agriculture, in general, and poverty, in particular. The impacts on agriculture are analyzed by commodity and by region. Because different farmers (especially those in different income brackets) produce diverse sets of commodities, themain part of our paper analyzes the effects on households and their im...

22 In the recent debate over the impact of trade reform on factor markets, it has been argued 23 that trade liberalization will lead to an increase in labor-demand elasticities — thus placing 24 labor markets under increased pressure. Using Turkish plant-level data spanning the course 25 of a dramatic trade liberalization, we test this idea. However, we are unable to find any 26 empirical suppo...