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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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/09/2543992/trade-reforms-market-access-poverty-argentina http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18053 |
| 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. |
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