Monthly Archives November 28, 2019

View: Despite doubts, there is enough evidence to conclude that foreign trade is good for the poor

Carlos McDuffie

November 28, 2019

Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

By Devashish Mitra In the context of India's recent decision not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the issue of the effects of trade liberalization on poverty has come to the fo...

Free trade reduces inequalities, ask Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in their new book

Carlos McDuffie

November 6, 2019

Stolper-Samuelson Theorem

o Do inequalities decrease in the poorest countries when they open up to trade? There are in fact relatively few cross-national studies on this topic, reflecting a pattern we will see over and ov...