Agricultural Trade Reform andPoverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Anderson, Kym

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

关键词: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY;    AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION;    AGRICULTURAL TRADE;    AGRICULTURE;    ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-3396
RP-ID  :  WPS3396

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The author offers an economic assessmentof the opportunities and challenges provided by the WorldTrade Organization's Doha Development Agenda,particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, forlow-income countries seeking to trade their way out ofpoverty. After discussing links between poverty, economicgrowth, and trade, he reports modeling results showing thatfarm product markets remain the most costly of all goodsmarket distortions in world trade. The author focuses onwhat such reform might mean for developing countries bothwith and without their involvement in the multilateral tradenegotiations. What becomes clear is that if those countrieswant to maximize their benefits from the Doha round, theyneed also to free up their own domestic product and factormarkets so their farmers are better able to take advantageof new market opportunities abroad. The author alsoaddresses other concerns of low-income countries about farmtrade reform: whether there would be losses associated withtariff preference erosion, whether food-importing countrieswould suffer from higher food prices in internationalmarkets, whether China's WTO accession will provide anexample of trade reform aggravating poverty by way of cutsin prices received by Chinese farmers, and the impact onfood security and poverty alleviation.