Format:
Online-Ressource (46 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1455208833
,
9781455208838
Series Statement:
IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 10/218
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Topalova, Petia Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010 ISBN 9781455208838
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5089/9781455208838.001
