Improved Market Access for Russia or Own Liberalization as part of WTO Accession: What will raise Russian income and reduce poverty more?

Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Oleksandr Shepotylo

No 331393, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: We estimate that a successful completion of the Doha Development Agenda should result in a weighted average loss to Russian households of –0.2 percent of consumption. Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. But Russia’s own trade and foreign direct investment liberalization as part of WTO accession should lead to gains of 7.3 percent of Russian consumption, and these gains are fairly evenly distributed throughout the population. We conclude that Russia has more to gain from its own liberalization than from Doha.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2005
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