Why Isn't the Doha Development Agenda More Poverty Friendly? (2007)
Hertel, Thomas, Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros, Winters, Alan
The breakdown of the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda has inspired critics to highlight the lack of effort on the part of rich countries to reform their agricultural policies. In...
Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries (2006)
Hertel, Thomas, Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros, Winters, Alan
Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to...
Global poverty assessment in GTAP: Improving the data and the model (2004)
The goal of this dissertation is to enable poverty assessment of trade liberalization at the global level. This objective is achieved by the development of innovative methods, both on the data and...
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
The Earnings Effects of Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Implications for Poverty (2004)
Hertel, Thomas W., Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul V., Cranfield, John A. L.
Most researchers examining poverty and multilateral trade liberalization have had to examine average, or per capita effects, suggesting that if per capita real income rises, poverty will fall. This...
How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements? (2003)
Hertel, Thomas, Hummels, David, Ivanic, Maros, Keeney, Roman
With the proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) over the past decade, demand for quantitative analysis of their likely impacts has surged. The main quantitative tool for performing such...
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries (2003)
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
"Globalization increases poverty" is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
The Earnings Effects of Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Implications for Poverty
Thomas W. Hertel, Maros Ivanic, Paul V. Preckel
Most researchers examining poverty and multilateral trade liberalization have had to examine average, or per capita effects, suggesting that if per capita real income rises, poverty will fall. This...
Hertel, Thomas W., Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
Distributional effects of WTO agricultural reforms in rich and poor countries
Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney, Maros Ivanic, L. Alan Winters
"Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to...
Distributional effects of WTO agricultural reforms in rich and poor countries
Hertel, Thomas W., Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros, Winters, L. Alan
Rich countries'agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be...
Reconciliation of the GTAP and Household Survey Data
This paper presents a method that was employed in order to make the available fourteen household income survey data sets compatible with the data in the GTAP version 5 database. The first step of the...
How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?
Hertel, Thomas, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic, Roman Keeney
With the proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) over the past decade, demand for quantitative analysis of their likely impacts has surged. The main quantitative tool for performing such...
Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Hertel, Thomas, Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros, Winters, Alan
Rich countries’ agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO’s troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear...
Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Poverty in Brazil and Chile
Thomas W. Hertel, Paul V. Preckel, Maros Ivanic
This paper combines results from a newly available international, cross-section consumption analysis, with earnings data from household surveys from Brazil and Chile, to analyze the implications of...
Why Isn’t the Doha Development Agenda More Poverty Friendly?
Hertel, Thomas, Keeney, Roman, Ivanic, Maros, Winters, Alan
The breakdown of the WTO negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda has inspired critics to highlight the lack of effort on the part of rich countries to reform their agricultural policies. In...
How confident can we be of CGE-based assessments of Free Trade Agreements?
Hertel, Thomas, Hummels, David, Ivanic, Maros, Keeney, Roman
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries
Hertel, Thomas, Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
“Globalization increases poverty” is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries
In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom...
How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?
Thomas Hertel, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic, Roman Keeney
Computable General Equilibrium models, widely used for the analysis of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are often criticized for having poor econometric foundations. This paper improves the linkage...
Agriculture Productivity Growth: Is the Current Trend on the Track to Poverty Reduction?
Valenzuela, Ernesto, Ivanic, Maros, Ludena, Carlos, Hertel, Thomas W.
In this study we evaluate the effect of annual productivity growth in agriculture over the 1991-2001 period on poverty in eleven developing countries. We compare this with the optimal pattern of...
Evaluating Poverty Impacts of Globalization and Trade Policy Changes on Agricultural Producers
Valenzuela, Ernesto, Hertel, Thomas W., Ivanic, Maros, Pratt, Alejandro Nin
The poverty effects and in particular the impact of trade liberalization on smallholder livestock producers in African and South East Asian developing countries (Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique,...
Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries-super-1
In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods have raised the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of...
IMPLICATIONS OF THE GROWTH OF CHINA AND INDIA FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
ELENA IANCHOVICHINA, MAROS IVANIC, WILL MARTIN
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to benefit more than most other regions from continued rapid growth in China and India. This paper analyzes the trade-related implications...
Implications of the growth of China and India for the other Asian giant : Russia
Ianchovichina, Elena, Ivanic, Maros, Martin, Will
Continuing rapid growth of China and India can be expected to raise incomes in Russia, but also to put adjustment pressure on Russian firms. The impacts of the rapid growth of China and India on the...
Why Isn't the Doha Development Agenda more Poverty Friendly?
Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney, Maros Ivanic, L. Alan Winters
Critics of the Doha Development Agenda rightly point to the lack of aggressive reform in wealthy countries for its role in dampening developing country gains. The authors find that the absence of...