Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India

September 1, 2010

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Petia Topalova. Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to examine the mechanisms underpinning this impact. Variation in sectoral composition across districts and liberalization intensity across production sectors allows a difference-in-difference approach. Rural districts, in which production sectors more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The impact of liberalization was most pronounced among the least geographically mobile, at the bottom of the income distribution, and in Indian states where inflexible labor laws impeded factor reallocation across sectors.

Subject: Consumption, International trade, Labor, National accounts, Poverty, Tariffs, Taxes, Trade liberalization

Keywords: Analysis of the trade liberalization-poverty link, Consumption, D. trade liberalization, Dependent variable, Europe, India, Labor market, Liberalization dummy, Post liberalization indicator, Poverty, Poverty rate, Poverty-tariff link, Production sector, Tariff, Tariffs, Trade Liberalization, Trade liberalization Evidenceon poverty, Trade liberalization link, Trade policy, Trade reform, Wage premia, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

46
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Working Paper No. 2010/218
Stock No:

WPIEA2010218
ISBN:

9781455208838
ISSN:

1018-5941

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