Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda

By K. Anderson, Will Martin. 2005

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Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization'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 farm land and unskilled labor and real net farm incomes would rise substantially in those developing country regions, thereby alleviating poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more agricultural subsidies are disciplined and applied tariffs are cut.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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The social cost of foreign exchange reserves (2006, unknown): “…cost of even the most aggressive anti-poverty programs implemented in developing countries.1 And it is roughly the same order of magnitude as the projected gains for developing nations from a successful conclusion of the Doha round of trade negotiations (see for example Anderson & Martin, 2005).”
Demystifying modelling methods for trade policy (2005, background): “The most recent studies focus on scenarios with features like the Framework Agreement (Anderson and Martin, 2005).”
The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access (2006, methodology): “1 See, for example, Anderson and Martin (2005), drawing on the chapter in their subsequent edited volume by Hertel and Keeney (2006), as well as the earlier partial equilibrium study by Hoekman, Ng and Olarreaga (2004). Hertel and Keeney’s finding that 93 percent of the global welfare cost of agricu”