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How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain From the Next WTO Round?

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  • Kym Anderson

    (University of Adelaide)

  • Shunli Yao

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of negotiation and adjustment. This paper provides new estimates of the likely economic effects on their economies of further liberalizing world trade post-Uruguay Round. The results show that the developing countries of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa have much to gain from taking part in the next round. However, those gains will be far greater the more those countries are willing to embrace reform at home so as to enable their firms to take greatest advantage of the opportunities provided by the opening up of markets abroad.

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  • Kym Anderson & Shunli Yao, 2003. "How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain From the Next WTO Round?," Journal of Economic Integration, Center for Economic Integration, Sejong University, vol. 18, pages 466-481.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:integr:0244
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    1. Kym Anderson, 2005. "Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries," Chapters, in: Sisira Jayasuriya (ed.), Trade Policy Reforms and Development, chapter 9, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Rolf Langhammer, 2005. "China and the G-21: A New North–South Divide in the WTO after Cancún?," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 339-358.
    3. Kym Anderson, 2003. "Trade Liberalization, Agriculture, and Poverty in Low-income Countries," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2003-25, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Alemayehu Geda, 2006. "Openness, Inequality and Poverty in Africa," Working Papers 25, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs.

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    JEL classification:

    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F17 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Forecasting and Simulation
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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