Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

Africa's role in the global economy is evolving as a result of new corporate strategies,
changing trade regulations, and innovative ways of overseeing the globalized production …

“TRADE is BAD.” So wrote President Donald Trump on a draft speech he was editing on Air
Force One while returning from a G-20 summit meeting in 2017.1 This statement reflects the …

Discussion Papers are presented by the authors in their personal capacity and opinions
expressed in these papers should be attributed to the authors. They are not meant to …

Sponsored by the UK Department for International Development, this book deals directly
with concerns that reform may have adverse effects on poverty in developing countries. The …

" Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse …

As multilateral negotiations focus more on reductions and removal of non-tariff barriers
(NTBs), the importance of quantifying the impact of these barriers has increased. Recent …

This paper offers a political economy analysis of the Doha Ministerial Conference with
special reference to developing countries. One of my key objectives is to understand the …

In recent years, more countries have increasingly turned to explicit, codified trade policy
instruments of the international trading system such as antidumping measures. Countries …

Scholars continue to debate the relationship between democracy and free trade. This paper
contributes to this debate by showing that the effects of democracy on trade policy vary …