Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under … the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an … agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty …

poverty in developing countries. There is relatively little empirical evidence addressing this question directly, but a lot of … relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty, so that the picture is much less negative than is often suggested in popular … debate. In the long run and on average, trade liberalisation is highly likely to be poverty alleviating, and there is no …