China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was a watershed event for both China and the WTO. After 30 … years of effective isolation from the world economy, and close to a quarter century of autonomous reforms, China joined the … legal framework of the world trading system. In doing so China made an extraordinarily wide-ranging set of commitments to …

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 …