. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …

The author offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization … showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all goods market distortions in world trade. The author focuses on …

In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to …

That free trade allows economies in an ideal world to achieve the greatest possible welfare is one of the few …

At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of …

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …

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 …

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

several other large countries are part of this group, so well over half the population of the developing world lives in these …, even as growth in the rich countries and the rest of the developing world slowed. The post-1980 globalizers are catching up … to the rich countries, but the rest of the developing world (the non-globalizers) is falling further behind. Next, the …