The paper undertakes a cost-benefit analysis of Afghanistan's accession to the WTO while attempting to shed light on … the post-WTO accession challenges. For our empirical analysis we have applied the WITS/SMART model to assess the … implication of the WTO membership. A cut in tariffs is the independent variable and government revenue, trade creation, consumer …

accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses (1) improved market access; (2) Kazakhstan tariff reduction … will gain about 6.7 percent of the value of Kazakhstan consumption in the medium run from WTO accession and up to 17 … against multinational service providers, but the other three elements of WTO accession that the authors model all contribute …