Agricultural Trade Reform and Poverty in the Asia-Pacific: A Survey and Some New Results

John Gilbert

No 2008-01, Working Papers from Utah State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We review the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the Asia- Pacific region. We then use the GTAP model to evaluate the possible impacts of the most recently proposed modalities for agricultural trade reform under Doha on the economies of the Asia-Pacific region, which we compare to a benchmark of comprehensive agricultural trade reform. The current proposal does not result in significant cuts to applied tariffs, and has very modest overall effects on welfare. Poverty in the region would decrease overall, but the distribution across countries is uneven. By contrast, comprehensive agricultural trade reform, with developing economies fully engaged, tends to benefit most economies in the region in the aggregate, and to consistently lower poverty.

Keywords: Agricultural trade; Doha; Asia-Pacific; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 F13 F17 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2008-12-19, Revised 2008-12-19
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-sea
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Forthcoming in Asia-Pacific Development Journal

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