全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP7749 Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP7749
	DP7749 Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions
	Kym Anderson; John Cockburn; Will Martin
发表日期	2010-03-21
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	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 incomes and raising real wages for unskilled workers in developing countries, and would reduce the number of poor people worldwide by 3 percent. The analysis based on the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model for a sample of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty, especially if only the non-poor are subjected to increased income taxation to compensate for the loss of trade tax revenue.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Farm trade policy Income inequality Poverty Price distortions
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp7749
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536585
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kym Anderson,John Cockburn,Will Martin. DP7749 Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions. 2010.