MultiHub Forum

I'm an economics student working on a thesis about the measurable impact of global trade agreements on regional inequality, and I'm struggling to find recent, non-partisan data that isolates trade effects from other factors like technology or domestic policy. The discourse is often polarized between outright protectionism and neoliberal optimism. For researchers or professionals in development economics, what are the most robust contemporary studies or indicators you use to analyze whether specific trade frameworks have exacerbated or mitigated inequality within developing nations over the past decade?