Article: Krugman's conundrum; Economics focus.(Does trade boost inequality)(Paul Krugman)

Article: Trade and Wage Inequality: Are They Related?
Atlantic Economic Journal;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......relationship between net exports and wage inequality in the U.S. The short- and long-run...results indicate that net exports and wage inequality are related in the long run. The main...relationship between net exports and wage inequality. This investigation was conducted...

Article: What's Driving Wage Inequality?
Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of this extended period of growing wage inequality. This essay will explain why wage inequality has been increasing in the United...themselves the primary force behind growing wage inequality. To some extent, globalization is...

Article: Seeds sown for future growth; The Doha round.(Despite their reservations, the launch of a new multilateral trade round in Doha this week is a boost for poor countries)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);  November 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ......trade round this week is a boost for poor countries HALFWAY through this week's tortured...foreign investment and competition. Poor countries were much less excited. India tried...understandable. In the previous Uruguay round, poor countries got few trade benefits and signed up...

Article: A clean slate for poor countries.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 21, 1999 ;     700+ words ......lend-forgive, lend-forgive that keeps poor countries indentured to the developed world...developing world is imperative. For many poor countries, external debt is already more than...program, called the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. Even if poor ...

Article: Wage inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99.
IMF Staff Papers;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...U.K. cross-sectional wage inequality rose sharply in the 1980s...effects on the evolution of wage inequality. The convergence of the wage...aspects of the sharp rise in wage inequality that occurred in the U.S. in...

Article: Together we will break the chains of debt--why people are demanding debt cancellation of poor countries
Peacework;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......millennium. Why is debt a problem for poor countries? In order to repay foreign debts, many poor countries are being forced to divert scarce...the World Bank as "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries" (HIPCs)-33 of them in Africa-owe...

Article: Implications of the capital-embodiment revolution for directed R&D and wage inequality
Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Wage inequality has increased dramatically in the...of understanding the evolution of wage inequality, then, it is important to determine...form of technical change, then, is wage inequality itself: with a high value of skilled...

Article: Moscow confirms intention to write off debts of poor countries.
Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire;  December 18, 2006 ;     194 words ......confirms intention to write off debts of poor countries MOSCOW. Dec 18 (Interfax) - Prime Minister...write off the debts of heavily indebted poor countries, the governmental press service said...participation in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative of the IMF and the ...

Article: Together We Will Break the Chains of Debt -- Why people are demanding debt cancellation for poor countries
Peacework;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......millennium. Why is debt a problem for poor countries? In order to repay foreign debts, many poor countries are being forced to divert scarce...the World Bank as "Heavily Indebted Poor Countries" (HIPCs)--33 of them in Africa--owe...

Article: Pill paupers; Drugs and developing countries.(Cheaper drugs for poor countries)
The Economist (US);  December 21, 2002 ;     613 words ...How to get cheaper drugs for poor countries IT HAS been another week of long arguments...agreement on getting cheaper drugs for poor countries. The main dispute has been over how...problem of getting cheaper drugs to poor countries. Few of the world's poorest countries...

Article: Muck and morals: raw materials.(Basle Convention against export of hazardous waste now attacked by poor countries)
The Economist (US);  September 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ......countries used to dump poisonous waste in poor countries to escape environmental regulations...group. Last year, after a campaign by poor countries, such dumping was made illegal. Under...end of 1997. Few recycling plants in poor countries comply with rich-world standards--so...

Article: Recent shifts in wage inequality and the wage returns to education in Britain.
National Institute Economic Review;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Introduction Since the late 1970s wage inequality has risen at a rapid rate in Britain...namely one of more slowly rising wage inequality in the 1990s. There has been a clear...the decade of the 20th century where wage inequality rose by most. The 1990s have also...

Article: Poor in a rich man's world; at the Paris summit, rich countries promised yet again to help poor countries integrate into the world economy. (Business)
The Economist (US);  July 22, 1989 ;     700+ words ......countries promised yet again to help poor countries integrate into the world economy. But...the poor prospects for their exports, poor countries had a right to special treatment by...Trade (GATT). This did not bother most poor countries. They saw GATT as a rich men's club...

Article: Explaining levels of within-group wage inequality in U.S. labor markets
Demography;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...EXPLAINING LEVELS OF WITHIN-GROUP WAGE INEQUALITY IN U.S. LABOR MARKETS* Most research...extent and sources of "within-group" wage inequality in more than 500 labor markets in...addition to documenting that within-group wage inequality across regions varies more widely...