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| Anderson, Kym; Cockburn, John; Martin, William J.. |
| Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling. This paper summarizes a series of new economy-wide global and national empirical studies that focus on the net effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing countries. The global LINKAGE model results suggest that removing those remaining distortions would reduce international inequality, largely by boosting net farm... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Income inequality; Price distortions; Farm trade policy; International Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58880 |
