Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Inequality Nexus: A Case Study of India

Rana Ejaz Ali Khan and Nadia Bashir

Asian Economic and Financial Review, 2011, vol. 1, issue 3, 114-119

Abstract: The paper attempted to see the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty and inequality in India. For trade liberalization, volume of trade as ratio of GDP, head count ratio for poverty and Gini-coefficient has been used for income inequality. The granger causality technique is applied to time series data for the years 1970-2009. The results indicate that trade has no significant effect on poverty and poverty has no effect on trade. However, trade has increased inequality in the short-run and inequality affected the trade in the long-run negatively. It partially contradicts the prediction of the Stolper- Samuelson theorem.

Keywords: India; Trade liberalization; Income distribution; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5002/article/view/716/1166 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:asi:aeafrj:v:1:y:2011:i:3:p:114-119:id:716

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Asian Economic and Financial Review from Asian Economic and Social Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Allen ().