Trade, Poverty Eradication, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

No 629, ADBI Working Papers from Asian Development Bank Institute

Abstract: We investigate if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real income of households, they determine the likelihood that a household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade liberalization were also analyzed using data from African countries. While there is sound evidence that trade can be pro-poor, there is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the importance of complementary policies such as infrastructure, trade facilitation, and social protection.

Keywords: trade; trade liberalization; trade policy; poverty; poverty eradication; United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F16 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2016-12-31
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