This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in …

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low … 1980s has given rise to greater pressures for reform, both internal and external. Over the past two decades numerous … country regions, and that much of the benefit from global reform would come not just from reform in high-income countries but …

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

barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world's poorest people, as are barriers to worker … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic … required to rank this set of opportunities against those aimed at addressing the world's other key challenges as part of the …

The author offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization … showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all goods market distortions in world trade. The author focuses on … what such reform might mean for developing countries both with and without their involvement in the multilateral trade …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of …, especially if developing countries are unwilling to undertake much reform. …

Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results …