How does trade liberalization affect the poor, and how can they be protected against its negative short-term effects? Trade reform has long been part of the arsenal of policies used to promote ...

While it is difficult to gauge the impact of trade liberalization so far, preliminary indications are that it has benefited the Caribbean countries by expanding their exports of goods and services, ...

We analyze the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on participation in market work, domestic duties, and marriage rates in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased and ...

It should be noted that these simulations only measure the first-order, i.e. short-run, impacts of tariff liberalization and do not capture second-order adjustments such as changes in the availability ...