Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is also an important year to work toward a consensus on how the world is going to respond … action is needed to help the world get back on track to achieve the MDGs; and urgent action is also needed to combat climate …

"Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries …, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be … transmission. The findings suggest that multilateral trade liberalization alone would have a negative effect on Mexican households …

multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact … first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from …

global trade integration. The document contains commentary and analysis of international trade and its effects on developing …

exports to industrial countries has yet to be fully bound in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (World Bank … Agenda regenerate the multilateral consensus that has been the hallmark of successive rounds of trade liberalization since … global trading system that put developing countries-and poor people in particular-at a disadvantage in their trade. Several …

world trading system and the role of trade preferences, exemptions from WTO rules, and technical assistance to implement WTO … multilateral trade issues and suggests policy options that would raise living standards in developing countries and reduce global … regions. It reviews recent trends in exports from developing countries, trade barriers that work to the disadvantage of poor …

Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …