TRADE LIBERALISATION UNDER THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA; OPTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR AFRICA

Thom Achterbosch, Hakim Ben Hammouda (), Patrick Osakwe and Frank van Tongeren

No 29104, Report Series from Wageningen University and Research Center, Agricultural Economics Research Institute

Abstract: This study provides a quantitative estimate of the potential economic consequences of multilateral trade reform under the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference erosion, loss of tariff revenue, and trade facilitation. It also examines the impact of OECD agricultural support programmes on economic welfare and specialisation in Africa. In the static version of the GTAP model, the study finds that full liberalisation of trade would increase global welfare (income) by 0.3 per cent, but would add 0.7 per cent annually to income in the African region. Sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, Southern Africa, are vulnerable to partial trade reforms as they incur losses from partial reform while all other regions derive positive gains from a liberalisation of minor scope.

Keywords: International; Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 93
Date: 2004
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/29104/files/pr040609.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aerirs:29104

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.29104

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Report Series from Wageningen University and Research Center, Agricultural Economics Research Institute Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().