Trade Policy and Global Poverty.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Summary -- Chapter 1 Sizing Up the Issues -- The Extent and Location of Global Poverty -- Poverty Location by Size Groups -- Table 1.1 -- Table 1.2 -- Least Developed, Heavily Indebted Poor, and sub-Saharan African Countries -- Table 1.3 -- India and China -- Implications -- Trade Patterns in Relation to Poverty -- Table 1.4 -- Table 1.5 -- Table 1.6 -- Poverty, Growth, and Trade -- Does Growth Reduce Poverty? -- The Paradox of Persistent Global Poverty -- Misleading Data? -- Rising Inequality? -- Table 1.7 -- Figure 1.1 -- Figure 1.2 -- Table 1.8 -- Population Growth Offset -- The Issue of Convergence -- Does Trade Increase Growth? -- Figure 1.3 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1A Estimating Poverty Rates -- Figure 1A.1 -- Table 1A.1 -- Appendix 1B Poverty Incidence and Elasticity under the Lognormal Distribution -- Table 1B.1 -- Appendix 1C Convergence Versus Divergence in International Income Levels -- Chapter 2 Arrangements for Preferential Access: Experience and Potential -- The Generalized System of Preferences -- Special Regimes of the European Union -- Special Regimes of the United States -- Testing for the Trade Impact of Preferential Regimes -- Policy Implications -- Chapter 3 Industrial-Country Protection and the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Global Poverty -- Tariffs on Manufactured Goods -- Table 3.1 -- Peak Tariffs: How Important Are They? -- Table 3.2 -- Table 3.3 -- Tariffs and Quotas in Textiles and Apparel -- Table 3.4 -- Table 3.5 -- Table 3.6 -- Industrial-Country Protection in Agriculture -- Table 3.7 -- Table 3.8 -- Table 3.9 -- Aggregate Protection Against Developing Countries -- Table 3.10 -- The Impact of Industrial-Country Agricultural Trade Liberalization on Global Poverty -- Food Trade Balance and Poverty -- Table 3.11 -- Contingent Protection -- Table 3.12 -- Table 3.13.