Openness to trade is a key element of economic policy; continuing extreme poverty in developing countries is a disgrace. This Handbook examines how concerns abo

Free trade can help 500 million people escape poverty and inject.

Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is b

The book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, im

Citing a paucity of empirical evidence on the poverty and distributional impacts of trade policy reform in Ghana as the main motivation for this volume, the edi