the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an …Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under … agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty …

transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade openness contributes to poverty alleviation directly by changing … the trade-to-grossdomestic-product ratio to measure openness often fail to find a direct effect of openness on poverty over … and above the growth-poverty nexus. This paper is motivated by the concern that the failure of these studies to detect the …