This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in
developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a …

This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on an under-explored aspect of wage
inequality—gender inequality. We consider a model where firms differ in their productivity …

Firms, workers, and consumers in developing countries are increasingly connected to each
other and the rest of the world through the internet. Can this connectivity transform poor …

International sanctions have significant economic effects with long‐lasting negative
consequences for human development. However, academic research on the gendered …

In recent decades, the growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) and the
move toward the digitalization of trade and global value chains has been radically …

To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a
connection, what if anything can and should be done about it? This chapter begins with an …

We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms.
Using data on manufacturing firms in China from 2004 to 2007, we find that foreign affiliates …

This paper studies how import liberalization affects formal employment across gender. The
theory offers a mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can …

The paper uses firm-level data to examine gender wage and productivity gaps in the
Ethiopian manufacturing sector for the period 1996–2010. It investigates gender wage …

Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and
emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether …