Providing Duty-Free Access to Australian Markets for Least-Developed Countries: A General Equilibrium Analysis
"The Doha ministerial declaration commits WTO members to liberalising access to their markets for least-developed countries (LDCs). Preferential trade policies have diverse impacts on the initiating country and its trading partners. These effects are of concern to scholars and policy makers. We use Australia as a case study to quantify the direct and indirect effects of providing preferential access to LDC imports entering Australian markets, using a general equilibrium model of the world economy. LDCs are projected to benefit and Australia is predicted to lose, reflecting adverse terms of trade effects. However, the magnitude of the adverse effect on Australia is small. If one was to view this initiative as an exercise in foreign aid, it suggests that Australia can provide a significant benefit to the poorest nations with which it trades, at almost no cost to itself." Copyright 2007 The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
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2007
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Authors: | Zhang, Xiao-guang ; Verikios, George |
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Australian Economic Review. - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR). - Vol. 40.2007, 3, p. 239-252
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Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR) |
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