Are the "poor" getting globalized? / Adelina Mendoza, Gaurav Nayyar, Roberta Piermartini
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 8609Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, October 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 20 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Are the Poor Getting Globalized?. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8609Online resources: Summary: One reason that poor people may not capture the full benefit from participation in international markets is that the goods they produce tend to be subject to relatively high trade barriers. This paper analyzes market access barriers faced by households in different income deciles by matching household survey data from India based on the industrial classification of their economic activity. Tariffs in international markets are higher, and nontariff measures more numerous, on goods produced by poor workers than on goods produced by rich workers. Tariffs faced by exporters are higher on goods produced in rural and more remote areas than on those in urban centers, on goods produced by informal enterprises than by formal ones, and on goods produced by women than by men. Furthermore, the global reduction in tariffs from 1996 to 2012 failed to ameliorate these differences. How did we get there? Efforts to protect poor workers across countries resulted in a coordination problem. Indeed, tariff protection in China and the United States is higher on goods produced by poor workers than on goods produced by rich workers. Therefore, if poor workers are employed in similar sectors, then each country's attempts to protect its poor workers by imposing higher tariffs and more nontariff measures on such goods will reduce the access of all poor workers to international markets, and thus limit the gains from tradePPN: PPN: 1040820379Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBONo physical items for this record
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