"Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open … results with the impact of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. The … the rest of the world. Foremost among the own reforms is liberalization of barriers against FDI in business services …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …. "--World Bank web site …

general economic gains and higher water prices, making irrigation subsidies difficult to justify. "--World Bank web site …

an increase in productivity would have a much larger positive impact than a reduction in taxes. "--World Bank web site …

"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … crucially on the extent to which high-income countries are willing to lower domestic support to their cotton farmers. "--World …

shown to exceed those from a successful campaign under the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda to reduce and … remove cotton subsidies and import tariffs globally. "--World Bank web site …

"Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … Organization (WTO) negotiations is now likely to bring further reform and shocks to world import prices and export demand. The … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the …

policies"--World Bank web site …

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