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 …

emerged in the post, Second World War era, largely in reaction to the folly of protectionism and managed trade that …

the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … sample of 15 countries, and nine stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty, especially if …