Economic Implications of Trade Liberalization Under the Doha Round

Joseph Francois (), Hans van Meijl () and Frank van Tongeren ()

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Abstract: We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasis on the EU and developing countries. We first develop a realistic "baseline" that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that are specifically attributable to further trade liberalization in the Doha Round. We then employ a global applied general equilibrium model, featuring capital accumulation and imperfect competition. Our Doha scenarios include agriculture, manufactures, and services liberalization, and trade facilitation. With agglomeration, OECD agricultural liberalization is not uniformly positive for LDCs.

Keywords: WTO; Doha Round; trade liberalization; services trade, trade facilitation, CGE modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F4 F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2003-12
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