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Challenges Of Development In 21st Century By Dr. Ruby Ojha, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Challenges Of Development In 21st Century By Dr. Ruby Ojha, Professor Vibhuti Patel
Professor Vibhuti Patel
This book makes a path-breaking contribution to encourage discourse on some of the most neglected areas in the mainstream economics. This scholarly contribution towards understanding of the macroeconomic parameters affecting development economics goes beyond economic history and examines wide range of contemporary development problems. The book provides up-to-date reference material for development economics, gender economics, International Trade and Economics of infrastructure. The scholar has examined wide range of contemporary concerns in development studies using prism of economics. She has touched specialised areas such as gender economics, environmental economics and inter-disciplinary work on social sector of the economy. International Trade and …
The Distributional Effects Of Nafta In Mexico, Kathy Baylis, Rafael Garduno-Rivera, Gianfranco Piras
The Distributional Effects Of Nafta In Mexico, Kathy Baylis, Rafael Garduno-Rivera, Gianfranco Piras
Kathy Baylis
This paper studies the regional distribution of benefits from trade in Mexico after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Specifically, we ask whether or not NAFTA increased the concentration of economic activity in Mexico. Unlike previous work which uses state-level data, we identify the effect of NAFTA on economic activity at the municipal level allowing us to observe detailed growth patterns across space. To explicitly identify the effect of the trade agreement, we contrast changes in economic activity in regions and sectors more and less likely to be affected by trade. Given the spatial nature of these data, we …