This paper develops a seven-region comparative static computable general equilibrium model of Russia to assess the … impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on these seven regions (the federal okrugs) of Russia. In order to assess … poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …

This paper develops a seven-region comparative static computable general equilibrium model of Russia to assess the … impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on these seven regions (the federal okrugs) of Russia. In order to assess … poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

their trade and poverty analysis. In the medium term, the authors find that virtually all households gain from Russian WTO … poverty …