Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2005
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN:

"This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the WTO's Doha round. The results suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa proportionately more than in other developing countries or in high-income countries, despite a terms of trade loss in parts of the region. Farm employment and output, the real value of agricultural and food exports, the real returns to farm land and unskilled labor, and real net farm incomes would all rise in the region, thereby alleviating poverty. A Doha partial liberalization of both agricultural and nonagricultural trade could significantly benefit the region." -- Cover verso.

Trade Reform and Regional Integration in Africa

Trade Reform and Regional Integration in Africa
Author: Mr. Zubair Iqbal
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 523
Release: 1998-12-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1455299146

Edited by Zubair Iqbal and Mohsin Khan, this volume is a collection of papers given at a seminar on trade issues in Africa, conducted by the IMF nad the African Economic Research Consortium. It represents the views of government officials, academics, and representatives from multilateral and regional agencies on issues relating to trade reform and regionalism in Africa. Issues include the role of trade liberalization in promoting sustained growth, interdependence of trade and macroeconomic policies, impediments to effective trade reforms, the steps needed to accelerate trade reform, and the importance of regional interaction.

The WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda

The WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215028518

WTO Hong Kong ministerial and the Doha development Agenda : Third report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence

ICTs for Health, Education, and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases

ICTs for Health, Education, and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases
Author: Driouchi, Ahmed
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-03-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466636440

Advancing technologies play an important role in the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic policies. The subsequent outcomes between these areas require a better understanding and assessment in order to pursue further efficient coordination. ICTs for Health, Education and Socioeconomic Policies: Regional Cases discusses the benefits that can be gained from the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic areas. Providing a regional focus on the Southern Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Arab economies, this book is essential for researchers, scholars, developers, policy makers, and graduate students interested in these specific regions and studies.

Assessing Prospective Trade Policy

Assessing Prospective Trade Policy
Author: Oliver Morrissey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136909370

This volume assesses economic partnership agreements between the EU and Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, focusing on specific concerns such as legal commitments, adjustment costs, impacts on poverty and food security, and regulatory reforms.

Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries

Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries
Author: Alex F. McCalla
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 082136717X

In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries translate into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing countries really get out of it. This two volume set seeks to answer these questions. This volume (Volume 2) addresses the question of how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect developing countries by quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform. It presents several different approaches to modeling the effects of the outcome of negotiations, and then investigates why these (and other) modeling efforts produce such divergent results. Volume 1 is issues-oriented. It takes up some key questions in the negotiations, setting the stage with a historical overview of the Doha Development Agenda to help identify issues of most significance to developing countries, and then explores select issues in greater depth. Aimed at policymakers and stakeholders, this two-volume effort puts into the public domain important analytical work that will improve the chance for a pro-development outcomes of the Doha round negotiations.