Global Trade and Poor Nations

The Poverty Impacts and Policy Implications of Liberalization

Marcelo Olarreaga, Bernard M. Hoekman, Bernard M. Hoekman, Marcelo Olarreaga

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780815736714
• eBook ISBN: 9780815736721
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: International Business
• Index: Economics

This thoughtful volume assesses the likely impact of reformed trade policies on the poorest of the poor—those on the bottom economic rungs in developing nations. The focus on a spectrum of poor nations across different regions provides some helpful and hopeful guidelines regarding the likely impacts of a global trade reform, agreed upon under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, as well as the impact of such reforms on economic development. In order to facilitate lesson-drawing across different regions, each country study utilizes a similar methodology. They combine information on trade policy at the product level with income and consumption data at the household level, thus capturing effects both on the macro level and in individual households where development policies ideally should improve day-to-day life. This uniformity of research approach across the country studies allows for a deeper and more robust comparison of results.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part One: The Doha Agenda
• Part Two: Country Studies
• Part Three: Policy Implications
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover