"This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two …

accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. The accession greatly accelerated China's domestic reforms. By the end … options. Trade is a strategic area in which the World Bank has been working closely with China with the aim to promote the …The past eight years witnessed China's phenomenal growth and integration into the world economy, expedited by its …

"The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …

"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 …