are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. "--World Bank web site …

adjustment costs. "--World Bank web site …

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"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from … 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 …

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 … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of … current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the WTO's Doha round. The results … agricultural and nonagricultural trade could significantly benefit the region. "--World Bank web site …

conclude in favor of a cautious approach to the imposition of new WTO obligations in the area of trade facilitation. On the … whole, this is the approach the WTO has taken, for example, by limiting its negotiations on trade facilitation to several … specific provisions of the GATT. The WTO can continue to function as a catalyst for reform. It is perhaps uniquely placed to …