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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Would multilateral trade reform benefit Sub-Saharan Africans? |
Author: | Anderson, K. Martin, W. Van der Mensbrugghe, D. |
Citation: | Journal of African Economies, 2006; 15(4):626-670 |
Publisher: | Oxford Univ Press |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
ISSN: | 0963-8024 1464-3723 |
Abstract: | This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's L inkage 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 proportionately more than in other developing countries or in high-income countries, despite a terms of trade loss in parts of the region. Farm employment and output, the real value of agricultural and food exports, the real returns to farm land and unskilled labour, and real net farm incomes would all rise in the region, thereby alleviating poverty. Results for a Doha partial liberalisation of both agricultural and non-agricultural trades take the region only a small part of the way towards those desirable outcomes. © 2006 Oxford University Press. |
Keywords: | Trade policy WTO multilateral negotiationa computable general equilibrium sub-Saharan Africa |
Description: | An earlier version is circulated as CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5049, London and as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3616, Washington DC, June 2005. |
DOI: | 10.1093/jae/ejk013 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejk013 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Economics publications |
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