The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value … added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP … free trade, thereby alleviating rural poverty. This occurs despite a terms of trade deterioration for developing countries …

developing country governments have reduced their sectoral and trade policy distortions, while many high-income countries … also suggest that full global liberalization of merchandise trade would raise value added in agriculture in developing …

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural … 6 percent to domestic farm subsidies. When the higher costs associated with the greater variability of trade measures …

Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing … countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …