Does trade reduce poverty? A view from Africa☆

Goff, Maëlan Le; Singh, Raju

doi:10.1016/j.joat.2014.06.001

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“…However the ability of any developing country to have these trade benefits depends in how educated and well trained the labour forces are. For most sub-Saharan African countries trade liberalisation has not been beneficial because it has not benefited the poor (Goff and Sigh, 2014). Most subSaharan African countries have, since they adopted the World Bank supported structural adjustment programme in 1980s, significantly liberalised their economy.…”

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Trade, Education Externalities and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria

Owoeye¹

2017

IOSR JEF

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Trade, Education Externalities and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria

Owoeye¹

2017

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“…To identify the relationship between trade policy and income inequality and poverty the following basic regression is run as proposed by a number of growth literature (Beck and Levine, 2004;Rioja and Valev, 2004;Beck et al, 2007;Le Goff and Singh, 2014;Rioja and Valev, 2014;Seven and Coskun, 2016). yi,t -yi,t-1 = (α-1) yi,t-1 + β1 TPi,t + γ X i,t + ηi + εi, t……….…”

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“…Some studies use trade openness (share of export and import to GDP) to identify the impact of trade on inequality and poverty for example, (Meschi and Vivarelli, 2009;Le Goff and Singh, 2014).…”

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“…Gini index is the most popular measures of income inequality and applied to a member of studies (Le Goff and Singh, 2014;Nguyen Viet, 2015;Seven and Coskun, 2016). Gini index is expressed and percentage and ranges from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (perfect inequality).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These variables also act as potential determinants of poverty and inequality and widely used in the literature (Christiaensen et al, 2003;Le Goff and Singh, 2014;Seven and Coskun, 2016). The study controls lagged value of dependent variable to test persistency of inequality / poverty measures as dependent variable (Beck et al, 2007) secondary school enrolment rate to measure human capital level (Le Goff and Singh, 2014;Seven and Coskun, 2016) inflation rate which is regarded as significant determinant of poverty and inequality (Ravallion and Datt, 1999;Easterly and Fischer, 2001;Dollar and Kraay, 2002;Le Goff and Singh, 2014;Seven and Coskun, 2016) share of government final consumption expenditure to GD as proxy to macroeconomic stability measure (Beck et al, 2000;Seven and Coskun, 2016) growth rate of real per capita GDP to test economic growth"s impact on poverty and inequality (Dollar and Kraay, 2002;Beck et al, 2007;Seven and Coskun, 2016). The detail description of the variables and their data sources are presented in the Appendix C.…”

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Article HistoryReceived: 10 July JEL ClassificationO50; F63; F14.The objective of the study is to identify the impact of trade policy on two significant goals of sustainable development namely poverty and income inequality in the emerging economies. Using trade openness and trade facilitation as a measure of trade policy the study examines their impact on Gini coefficient and average income of the poorest quintile as a proxy to income inequality and poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap at $1.90 per day (2011 PPP) as indicators of extreme poverty. It applies dynamic panel data model with panel datasets over the period of 1986-2013 for trade openness and 2005-2013 for trade facilitation on the emerging economies based on the availability of data. The findings of the study suggest that trade openness and trade facilitation as measures of trade policy significantly reduce the extreme poverty as measured by poverty headcount ratio and poverty gap at $1.90 a day and increase the average per capita income of the lowest 20% population of the emerging economics whereas the two measures of trade policy increase the income inequality in these economies.

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This chapter presents novel estimates on the numbers and shares of workers in exporting and importing firms of the formal private sector in 132 countries. It shows that the share of workers employed by exporting firms dropped significantly during the trade collapse caused by the global economic crisis and has stagnated ever since. For the same set of countries, the chapter also documents that exporters and importers are more productive and pay higher wages than their non‐trading counterparts. There is, however, a gap between the productivity and the wage premium of exporting and importing firms, indicating that gains from trade are only partially translated into gains for workers. Within exporting firms, heavy exporters tend to have lower labour productivity and pay lower wages than other exporters, while firms that supply inputs into GSCs have higher productivity and pay higher wages than other exporters. Exporters, especially those that form part of GSCs by assembling final goods, employ more women than non‐exporters, but at the same time tend to have higher shares of temporary employment. Importers are found to employ fewer temporary workers.

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Does trade reduce poverty? A view from Africa☆

Cited by 105 publications

References 18 publications

Trade, Education Externalities and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria

Trade, Education Externalities and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria

Trading for Sustainable Development Goals: Trade Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Emerging Economies

Trade and the organization of production: Efficiency and labour market outcomes

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