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Assessing The Price-Raising Effect Of Non-Tariff Measures In Africa, Olivier Cadot, Julien Gourdon
Assessing The Price-Raising Effect Of Non-Tariff Measures In Africa, Olivier Cadot, Julien Gourdon
Julien Gourdon
In spite of widespread tariff reductions, intra-African borders remain ‘thick’. Regional trade is inhibited by inadequate transportation infrastructure but also by various non-tariff measures (NTMs). This paper combines price data from the World Bank’s International Comparison Project with a new database on NTMs to estimate their effect on consumer prices for selected consumption products. Results based on panel regressions on 1,260 country-product pairs suggest that, after controlling for tariffs, systematic cross-country cost-of-living differences, and product-specific unobservables, sanitary and phytosanitary measures contribute to raise the price of African foodstuffs by 14%. At the product level, rice and other cereals, some types …
Wage Inequality In Developing Countries: South–South Trade Matters, Julien Gourdon
Wage Inequality In Developing Countries: South–South Trade Matters, Julien Gourdon
Julien Gourdon
The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The major purpose of this study is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South–South (S–S) trade. Globalization has not only lead to increasing North–South (N–S) trade, but it has also changed the direction and composition of trade as more trade is carried out among developing countries. In this study, we find that increasing wage inequality is associated more with the South–South trade liberalization than with the classical trade liberalization with northern countries. A part of this increasing …