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Type: Journal article
Title: Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
Author: Anderson, K.
Martin, W.
Citation: The World Economy, 2005; 28(9):1301-1327
Publisher: Blackwell Publ Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Issue Date: 2005
ISSN: 0378-5920
1467-9701
Editor: Anderson, K.
Martin, W.
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Kym Anderson, Will Martin
Abstract: This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the WTO's Doha Round. The results suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (and in Cairns Group countries) proportionately more than in other developing countries or high-income countries. Real returns to farmland and unskilled labour, and real net farm incomes, would rise substantially in those developing-country regions, thereby helping to reduce poverty. A Doha partial liberalisation could take the world some way towards those desirable outcomes, but more so the more agricultural subsidies are disciplined and applied tariffs are cut, and the more not just high-income but also developing countries choose to engage in the process of reform.
Keywords: Trade policy
WTO
Doha Development Agenda
multilateral negotiations
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00735.x
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00735.x
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