Trade Liberalization and Developing Countries under the Doha Round

Joseph Francois, Hans Meijl and Frank van Tongeren

No 03-060/2, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We explore the impact of multilateral liberalization, with emphasison distributional effects across countries. We first develop a realistic "base1ine" 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 uniform1y positive for developing countries.

Keywords: WTO; Doha Round; trade liberalization; services trade; trade facilitation; CGE modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F13 F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-07-24, Revised 2003-08-30
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