Trade Reforms, Market Access, and Poverty in Argentina

Much of the literature that studies the relationship between trade and poverty in developing countries focuses on the effects of national trade reforms, such as own tariff reductions. In contrast, the World Trade Organization negotiations at the Do...

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Main Author:	Porto, Guido G.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES AGRICULTURE AVERAGE TARIFF AVERAGE TARIFFS CAPITAL GOODS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CONSUMERS DEMAND ANALYSIS DEMAND ELASTICITIES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DOMESTIC PRODUCTION ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF DEMAND ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY ELIMINATION OF TARIFFS EMPLOYMENT EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM PRICES EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATE MOVEMENTS EXCHANGE RATES EXPORT PRICES EXPORT SUBSIDIES EXPORT SUPPLY EXPORTS EXTERNAL TARIFF EXTREME POVERTY FACTOR ENDOWMENTS FACTOR PRICE FACTOR PRICES FACTORS OF PRODUCTION FOREIGN TRADE FOREIGN TRADE POLICY GDP GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL GLOBAL TRADE IMPORT PRICES IMPORTS INCOME INCOME EFFECTS INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERNATIONAL MARKETS INTERNATIONAL PRICES INTERNATIONAL TRADE LABOR MARKET LABOR SUPPLY LEISURE LIBERALIZATION OF TRADE LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MARGINAL EFFECTS MARKET ACCESS MARKET INFORMATION MARKET SURVEYS MICROECONOMICS NATURAL RESOURCES PERFECT COMPETITION POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POVERTY LINE PRICE CHANGES PRICE ELASTICITY PRICE INCREASES PRICE INDEXES PRODUCERS QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS QUOTA IMPORTS REGIONAL TRADE RESOURCE ALLOCATION SUBSTITUTES TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF PROTECTION TARIFF RATE TARIFF REDUCTIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS TIME SERIES TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE BARRIERS TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICIES TRADE POLICY TRADE PROTECTION TRADE REFORM TRADE REFORMS UNSKILLED LABOR UNSKILLED WORKERS WAGES WELFARE EFFECTS WELFARE IMPACTS WORLD PRICES WORLD TRADE WTO TRADE REGIME TRADE STRUCTURE REFORM POLICY POVERTY INCIDENCE DOMESTIC TRADE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION LOW-INCOME ECONOMIES CONSUMPTION PATTERNS EXPORT DEVELOPMENT POVERTY REDUCTION TRADE REGIME WTO
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2543992/trade-reforms-market-access-poverty-argentina http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18053

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Summary:	Much of the literature that studies the relationship between trade and poverty in developing countries focuses on the effects of national trade reforms, such as own tariff reductions. In contrast, the World Trade Organization negotiations at the Doha Round were more concerned with the poverty effects on low-income countries, and of foreign reforms, such as the elimination of agricultural subsidies in industrial economies. The author empirically compares the relative poverty impacts of national and foreign trade reforms in Argentina. The author investigates national trade reforms, including tariff cuts on consumption goods and capital goods in Argentina. Foreign trade reforms include the elimination, in industrial countries, of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers on agricultural manufactures and industrial manufactures. These policies enhance the market access of Argentine exports. Overall, a combination of own reforms and enhanced market access would cause poverty to decline by between 1.7 and 4.6 percentage points. This evidence suggests that trade policies can be important poverty-reducing instruments in Argentina.

Trade Reforms, Market Access, and Poverty in Argentina

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