Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: Modeling "real" households with endogenous productivity effects

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-150

  Rutherford, Thomas F ^a   Tarr, David G ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Business services; Computable general equilibrium; Dixit Stiglitz; Endogenous productivity; Foreign direct investment; Increasing returns to scale; Poverty impacts; Real household model

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; POVERTY; PRODUCTIVITY; RETURNS TO SCALE; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 43049154591     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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