China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Policy Reform, and Poverty Reduction :An Introduction

Bhattasali, Deepak ; Shantong, Li ; Martin, Will

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: ACCESSION;    ACCESSION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;    AGRICULTURAL PRICES;    AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION;    AGRICULTURAL TRADE;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhh035
RP-ID  :  77460

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

China's accession to the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) was a watershed event for bothChina and the WTO. After 30 years of effective isolationfrom the world economy, and close to a quarter century ofautonomous reforms, China joined the legal framework of theworld trading system. In doing so China made anextraordinarily wide-ranging set of commitments to reform ofits own legal and administrative system and tothorough-going liberalization of trade in goods andservices. This issue contains five studies from a majorproject undertaken by the World Bank and the DevelopmentResearch Centre of China's State Council. A keyobjective of the studies was to assess the impact of thereforms associated with WTO accession on poverty in China,particularly in rural areas, which now lag so badly behindurban areas.