The Impact of Trade Reforms on Employment and Welfare in ECOWAS Countries: The Case of Senegal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sokhna Diarra Mboup ◽  
Racky Baldd ◽  
Thierno Malick Diallo ◽  
Christian Arnault Emini
Keyword(s):  
Trade Reforms ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Impact of Trade Reforms on Poverty

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1127-1137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usman Qadir ◽  
Muhammad Ali Kemal ◽  
Hasan Mohammad Mohsin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Trade Liberalisation ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
Trade Reforms ◽  
Trade Regimes ◽  
Short Run ◽  
International Trading ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
The Impact

Trade plays a vital role in determining the growth process of any country. Trade liberalisation and openness of the economy are now almost universally accepted as the main ingredients of successful economic growth and welfare of the population. These are believed to be responsible for the exceptional growth of industrialised and newly industrialised countries. Many developing countries, under the auspices of the WTO are taking major steps to liberalise their trade regimes. However, in the short run, the impact of these policy changes is generally perceived to be painful for both the producers and the consumers; and especially so for the latter. A key question here is the impact of trade reforms on poverty, which has persisted in most developing countries despite concerted efforts on many fronts to eradicate this social evil. Like many developing countries, Pakistan has undertaken far-reaching trade reforms aimed at creating an open international trading environment. Pakistan’s dependence on international trade, as measured by the total trade to GDP ratio, has increased significantly from 13.3 percent in 1960-61, to 32.47 percent in 1992-93. As such, it is important to determine if there is a relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty alleviation; do trade reforms lead to reduction in country wide poverty levels or not.

Trade, Poverty, and Inequality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devashish Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Growth Efficiency ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
Trade Reforms ◽  
General Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
China And India ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses how trade can affect poverty through a large number of channels, based on growth, efficiency and distribution. The redistributive channels also affect inequality. Case studies of China and India show that the country with the greater rise in inequality, namely China, has grown faster and seen bigger poverty reductions. Cross-country regressions also show the possibility of a poverty reducing impact of trade reforms. And, there exists considerable evidence for specifically the growth channel. Most of the intra-country studies, both direct, reduced-form ones, as well as those based on empirical general-equilibrium analysis, also provide strong support for the poverty-reducing effects of trade. Moving to inequality, many aspects, such as wage inequality, overall income inequality and labor shares, have been studied. The chapter shows that the evidence on the impact of trade on inequality has been quite mixed.

Workers and Trade Liberalization: The Impact of Trade Reforms in Mexico on Wages and Employment

ILR Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zadia M. Feliciano
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Trade Reforms ◽  
Relative Wages ◽  
Relative Employment ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact

Between 1986 and 1990, the Mexican government reduced tariffs and import license coverage by more than 50%. The author, using micro-level data, analyzes the impact of trade reform on Mexican wages and employment. Industries that had greater reductions in protection levels, she finds, had a larger percentage of low-skill workers. Wage dispersion increased in both the non-tradables sector and, to a much greater degree, the tradables sector. This pattern suggests that trade reform increased wage inequality. The decline in import license coverage appears to have reduced relative wages of workers in reformed industries by 2%, but did not affect relative employment. Reductions in tariffs had no statistically significant effect on relative wages or relative employment.

Formation of Lunar Craters and Bright Rays as a Result of Meteorite Impacts

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 415-418
Author(s):  
K. P. Stanyukovich ◽  
V. A. Bronshten
Keyword(s):  
Explosive Charge ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Meteorite Impacts ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Lunar Craters ◽  
The Impact

The phenomena accompanying the impact of large meteorites on the surface of the Moon or of the Earth can be examined on the basis of the theory of explosive phenomena if we assume that, instead of an exploding meteorite moving inside the rock, we have an explosive charge (equivalent in energy), situated at a certain distance under the surface.

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