Trade Reforms, Market Access and Poverty in Argentina
Title | Trade Reforms, Market Access and Poverty in Argentina PDF eBook |
Author | Guido G. Porto |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Argentina |
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Much of the literature that studies the relationship between trade and poverty in developing countries focuses on the effects of national trade reforms, such as own tariff reductions. In contrast, the World Trade Organization negotiations at the Doha Round were more concerned with the poverty effects on low-income countries, and of foreign reforms, such as the elimination of agricultural subsidies in industrial economies. The author empirically compares the relative poverty impacts of national and foreign trade reforms in Argentina. The author investigates national trade reforms, including tariff cuts on consumption goods and capital goods in Argentina. Foreign trade reforms include the elimination, in industrial countries, of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers on agricultural manufactures and industrial manufactures. These policies enhance the market access of Argentine exports. Overall, a combination of own reforms and enhanced market access would cause poverty to decline by between 1.7 and 4.6 percentage points. This evidence suggests that trade policies can be important poverty-reducing instruments in Argentina.
Trade Reforms, Market Access and Poverty in Argentina
Title | Trade Reforms, Market Access and Poverty in Argentina PDF eBook |
Author | Guido G. Porto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 2016 |
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Much of the literature that studies the relationship between trade and poverty in developing countries focuses on the effects of national trade reforms, such as own tariff reductions. In contrast, the World Trade Organization negotiations at the Doha Round were more concerned with the poverty effects on low-income countries, and of foreign reforms, such as the elimination of agricultural subsidies in industrial economies.Porto empirically compares the relative poverty impacts of national and foreign trade reforms in Argentina. The author investigates national trade reforms, including tariff cuts on consumption goods and capital goods in Argentina. Foreign trade reforms include the elimination, in industrial countries, of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers on agricultural manufactures and industrial manufactures. These policies enhance the market access of Argentine exports. Overall, a combination of own reforms and enhanced market access would cause poverty to decline by between 1.7 and 4.6 percentage points. This evidence suggests that trade policies can be important poverty-reducing instruments in Argentina.This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to assess the poverty impacts of trade and trade policies.
International Market Access and Poverty in Argentina
Title | International Market Access and Poverty in Argentina PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Porto |
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Pages | |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Electronic book |
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The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty
Title | The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789287042323 |
The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty looks at the complex relationships between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade, and examines the challenges that poor people face in benefiting from trade opportunities. Written jointly by the World Bank Group and the WTO, the publication examines how trade could make a greater contribution to ending poverty by increasing efforts to lower trade costs, improve the enabling environment, implement trade policy in conjunction with other areas of policy, better manage risks faced by the poor, and improve data used for policy-making.
Predicting the Poverty Impacts of Trade Reform
Title | Predicting the Poverty Impacts of Trade Reform PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Warren Hertel |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Commercial policy |
ISBN | 1217172335 |
"An important area of research in recent years involves assessing the microeconomic implications of macro-level policies--particularly those related to international trade. While a wide range of research methodologies are available for assessing the microeconomic incidence of micro-policies, as well as for assessing the effect of macro-level policies on markets and broad groups of households, there is a gap when it comes to eliciting the disaggregated household and firm level effects of trade policies. Recent research addresses this knowledge gap and the present survey offers an overview of this literature. The preponderance of the evidence from the studies encompassed by this survey points to the dominance of earnings-side effects over consumption-side effects of trade reform. This is problematic, since household surveys are notable for their underreporting of income. From the perspective of the poor, it is the market for unskilled labor that is most important. The poverty effects of trade policy often hinge crucially on how well the increased demand for labor in one part of the economy is transmitted to the rest of the economy by way of increased wages, increased employment, or both. Further econometric research aimed at discriminating between competing factor mobility hypotheses is urgently needed. This paper--a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to assess the poverty impacts of trade policies"--World Bank web site.
Globalization and Poverty
Title | Globalization and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Harrison |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226318001 |
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Rigged Rules and Double Standards
Title | Rigged Rules and Double Standards PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Watkins |
Publisher | Oxfam |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780855985257 |
A critical and detailed analysis of inequalities of world trade systems.