Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda on China: the role of labor markets and complementary education reforms

Fan Zhai () and Thomas Warren Hertel ()

No 3702, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The authors assess the implications of multilateral trade reforms for poverty in China. They do so by combining results from a global modeling exercise with a national CGE model that features disaggregated households in both the rural and urban sectors. They examine two trade reform scenarios: one involving global trade liberalization, and one involving possible Doha Development Agenda reforms. Using the World Bank's $2 a day poverty line, the authors find that multilateral trade reforms do in fact reduce poverty in China. The biggest reductions occur in the rural areas-largely as a result of higher prices for farm products.

Keywords: Environmental Economics&Policies; Economic Theory&Research; TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT; Health Economics&Finance; Poverty Assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-09-01
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