The 1990s dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between
trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries …

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 …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

In this paper, we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage,
employment, and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring …

The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-
date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an …

Technological change has reduced the relative price of capital goods. Reductions in trade
costs make it cheaper to import capital goods. With capital-skill complementarity, both can …

Although trade liberalization is being actively promoted as a key component in development
strategies, theoretically, the impact of trade openness on poverty reduction is ambiguous. On …

In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final
goods on the wage skill premium within firms in Indonesia–a country with a high share of …

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in
inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a …

Over the last several decades, the World Bank has accumulated a large number of datasets
from a large number of countries which are based on household-level surveys, statistically …