This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of …

incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that … have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer prices, we estimate the change in real income at the poverty line that … would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of poverty with …

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 … estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis …

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 …