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Will International Trade Reduce Poverty? A Background Note to NORAD

CMI Report | Jan 2007

NORAD is currently developing a trade strategy towards developing countries. This background note presents a review of the current literature and empirical ...

International trade, Poverty reduction

Fragmented production: regionalization of trade?

Report in External Series | Jan 2003

This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of production. Within such a framework ...

Asia: China., Americas: Mexico

Trade liberalization and Poverty: Challenges for Southern African Development Community

Book Chapter | Dec 2007

The impact of trade liberalization on poverty levels in developing countries is reviewed in this paper. Trade might influence poverty, or household ...

Trade liberalization, Poverty, SADC, Southern Africa

Agricultural Trade between Bangladesh and India: An Analysis of Trends, Trading Patterns and Determinants

Report in External Series | Nov 2012

The paper analyses the indices of trends and patterns of India-Bangladesh bilateral agriculture trade, and estimates the short and long-run elasticities ...

Agricultural trade, Bangladesh, India

Trust and Trade ... Is distance dead?

CMI Report | Jan 2003

This report explores the facts behind the buzzwords ´globalisation` and ´the new economy`. In general we associate these concepts with a borderless ...

Trade flows, Trade barriers, Transportation costs, Globalisation, Economic models

Aid for trade: A misdirected initiative?

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2009

Given that the motivation for aid is poverty reduction, I argue that Aid for Trade (AfT) measures need to demonstrate that they are effective and have ...

SADC, Aid for trade, Poverty

Does aid for trade to SADC countries facilitate poverty reduction?

Book Chapter | Dec 2009

Given that the motivation for aid is poverty reduction, I argue that Aid for Trade (AfT) measures need to demonstrate that they are effective and have ...

Aid for Trade, SADC, Poverty

Trade policy, poverty and inequality in Namibia

Book Chapter | Jan 2001

The analysis shows that trade liberalisation can be expected to lead to higher growth. Namibia conforms to the typical SSA picture of low growth and ...

Trade policy, , Poverty, Africa: Namibia

Trade sanctions and child labour in Bangladesh

Book Chapter | Jan 1997

Trade sanctions and child labour in Bangladesh Arne Wiig Child labour and international trade polic

Liberalisation of trade in producer services - the impact on developing countries

CMI Report | Jan 1999

This paper analyzes the impact of liberalization of trade in producer services, focusing on financial services, telecommunications and transport. The ...

International trade, Africa: Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania

Trade unions in processes of democratisation. A study of party labour relations in Zamiba

CMI Report | Jan 1992

This report assesses the role of labour in the recent transition to multi-party rule in Zambia. The main question considered is to what extent labour, ...

Democracy, Democratisation, Trade Unions, Zambia

Cross-border trade in the war areas of the Sudans: Smuggling or a form of cooperation?

Sudan Working Paper | Dec 2016

After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. In ...

war, Border, Coping mechanisms, markets, Sumbuk, trade, Livelihoods, Sudan, South Sudan, Southern Kordofan State

Experience from Bangladesh with ethical trading initiatives

CMI Report | Jan 2003

Since the 1990s there has been increasing concern in the North about products from the South and the conditions under which they are produced. In least ...

Ethics, Codes of conduct, International trade, Working conditions, Labour standards, Textile industry, Bangladesh, Asia: Bangladesh

Trading in corruption: Evidence and mitigation measures for corruption in the trading of oil and minerals

U4 Issue | Jun 2017

Between 2011 and 2013, sales of government oil from the ten biggest producers in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 56% of these countries’ total ...

natural resource management, oil, minerals, resource curse, commodity trading, corruption, national oil companies, state-owned enterprises, extractive revenue misappropriation

Trade and growth with static and dynamic economies of scale

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1996

This paper develops a dynamic two-country, two-sector model of international trade with asymmetric technological spillovers, static increasing returns ...

Ethnic Ties in Trade Relationships and the Impact on Economic Performance: The Case of Small-Scale Producers in the Handloom Sector in Ethiopia

Journal Article | Jan 2011

This article analyses the importance of ethnic ties in trade relationships of small-scale producers in the handloom sector in Ethiopia using both a non-parametric ...

ethnic ties, trade, transaction cost, small-scale producers, Ethiopia

Coffee, co-operatives and competition: The impact of fair trade

CMI Report | Jan 2004

Coffee is one of the most important Third World export commodities, and 70% of the producers are small-scale farmers. Coffee producers are often poor ...

Fair Trade, Coffee, Co-operatives, Developing countries, Case studies, Mexico, Americas: Mexico

Trust and trade

Master's Thesis | Jan 2003

Trust and trade Guri Sandelien Master thesis defended at Institute of Economics, University of Berg

Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Sudan A Case Study from Kassala and Gedarif States

Sudan Working Paper | Jan 2015

Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, wasone of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic groupsand ...

Sudan

The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895-1925. Business communication in colonial times

Book Chapter | Jan 2015

This article uses the Norway East Africa Trading company in Zanzibar as an example of how increased facility of communication aided small businesses in ...

Africa, colonialism, Tanzania, Zanzibar