Does the GATT/WTO Increase Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region? (2008)
Martin, Will, Anderson, Kym, Cong, Pham
Will Martin, Kym Anderson and Cong S. Pham
Does the GATT/WTO Increase Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region? (2008)
Martin, Will, Anderson, Kym, Cong, Pham
Will Martin, Kym Anderson and Cong S. Pham
Appendix: Methodology for Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives (2008)
Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, M., Martin, Will, Sandri, D., Valenzuela, Ernesto
WTO report no.: 44641
Appendix: Methodology for Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives (2008)
Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, M., Martin, Will, Sandri, D., Valenzuela, Ernesto
WTO report no.: 44641
Acknowledgements Acknowledgements (2008)
David Bl, Ford Bl, David David, Laborde Laborde, Will Martin
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Sébastien Jean, David Laborde, Will Martin, Sébastien Jean Agroparistech, Directeur De Recherché, Umr Économie Publique
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
Estimating the Gravity Equation when Zero Trade Flows are Frequent (2008)
In this paper we estimate the gravity model allowing for the pervasive issues of heteroscedasticity and zero bilateral trade flows identified in an influential paper by Santos Silva and Tenreyro. We...
Economic development in emerging Asian markets: implications for Europe (2008)
Martin, Will, Ianchovichina, Elena, Dimaranan, Betina
The impacts of faster growth in China and India for Europe are analysed taking into account terms-of-trade effects, second-best welfare impacts and improvements in product quality and variety. More...
Implications for South Asian Countries (2007)
Sanjay Kathuria, Will Martin, Anjali Bhardwaj, World Bank
A review of the basic economics of the MFA highlights the importance of the discriminatory character of the arrangements. While exporting countries can gain from some quota rents, these gains have to...
Elena Ianchovichina, Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga, Will Martin, Francis Ng, Arvind Subramanian, ...
Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been
Donald Mitchell, Harry De Gorter, Stephen Haley, Steven Jaffee, Will Martin, John Nash, ...
exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the...
Why is it so difficult? Trade liberalization under the Doha Agenda (2007)
Martin, Will, Messerlin, Patrick
Many explanations have been offered for the current difficulties of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In fact, the system appears to have managed many of these challenges reasonably well, including...
Huang, Jikun, Liu, Yu, Martin, Will, Rozelle, Scott
Chapter 7 of 'China-Linking Markets for Growth'
Agricultural and Nama reform under Doha: Implications for Asia-Pacific economies (2007)
The definitive version of this article can be found at www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Agricultural tariff and subsidy cuts in the Doha round (2007)
http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Developing-Countries-and-Global-Trade-Negotiations-isbn9780415417341
The Doha agenda and agricultural trade reform: The role of economic analysis (2007)
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405181006
Agricultural and Nama reform under Doha: Implications for Asia-Pacific economies (2007)
The definitive version of this article can be found at www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Agricultural tariff and subsidy cuts in the Doha round (2007)
http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/Developing-Countries-and-Global-Trade-Negotiations-isbn9780415417341
The Doha agenda and agricultural trade reform: The role of economic analysis (2007)
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781405181006
Market Access Barriers in Agriculture and Options for Reform (2006)
Anderson, Kym, De Gorter, Harry, Martin, Will
http://go.worldbank.org/7FH3EQWSY0
Market Access Barriers in Agriculture and Options for Reform (2006)
Anderson, Kym, De Gorter, Harry, Martin, Will
http://go.worldbank.org/7FH3EQWSY0
Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What Is at Stake for Developing Countries? (2006)
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
The LINKAGE model of the global economy and the latest Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database (version 6.05) are used to examine the impact of current merchandise trade barriers and...
Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans? (2006)
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy is...
Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What Is at Stake for Developing Countries? (2006)
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
The linkage model of the global economy and the latest Global Trade Analysis Project (gtap) database (version 6.05) are used to examine the impact of current merchandise trade barriers and...
Costs of Taxation and the Benefits of Public Goods: The Role of Income Effects (2005)
Martin, Will, Anderson, James E.
The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify very much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good...
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (2005)
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, School Of Economics
Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favourable development outcome from the Doha Development agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly...
Agricultural trade reform and the doha development agenda (2005)
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an27381030
Agricultural trade reform and the doha development agenda (2005)
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an27381030
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (2005)
Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favourable development outcome from the Doha Development agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly...
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (2005)
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=4840912
Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (2004)
Ianchovichina, Elena, Martin, Will
This article presents estimates of the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization. China is estimated to be the biggest beneficiary (US$31 billion a year from trade reforms in...
Developing Countries' Changing Participation in World Trade (2003)
Recent years have seen substantial reductions in trade policy and other barriers inhibiting developing country participation in world trade. Lower barriers have contributed to a dramatic shift in the...
Developing Countries and a New Round of WTO Negotiations (2002)
Hertel, Thomas W., Hoekman, Bernard M., Martin, Will
This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity‐building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (wto)...
The cost of rich (and poor) country protection to developing countries (2001)
Anderson, Kym, Dimaranan, Betina, Francois, Joseph F., Hertel, Thomas W., Hoekman, Bernard, Martin, Will
Copyright © 2001 Centre for the Study of African Economies
The cost of rich (and poor) country protection to developing countries (2001)
Anderson, Kym, Dimaranan, Betina, Francois, Joseph F., Hertel, Thomas W., Hoekman, Bernard, Martin, Will
Copyright © 2001 Centre for the Study of African Economies
2001 Developing countries and a new Round of WTO negotiations (2001)
Thomas W. Hertel, Bernard M. Hoekman, Will Martin
This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity-building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating...
Trade policies, developing countries, and globalization (2001)
There have been very substantial reductions in the trade policy and other barriers inhibiting developing country participation in world trade. Associated with this has been a dramatic shift in the...
No Adelaide Australia, Kym Anderson, Kym Anderson, Betina Dimaranan, Betina Dimaranan, Joe Francois, ...
This study confirms that substantial barriers to market access will remain in both rich and poor countries following full implementation of the Uruguay Round agreement. The analysis finds that around...
Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round (2000)
Hertel, Thomas W, Anderson, Kym, Francois, Joseph F, Martin, Will
Published in "Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda From a Development Perspective", edited by M. D. Ingco and L. A. Winters, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press Much remains to be done...
Agriculture And Non-Agricultural Liberalization In The Millennium Round (2000)
Thomas W. Hertel, Thomas W. Hertel, Kym Anderson, Kym Anderson, Joseph F. Francois, Joseph F. Francois, ...
Much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture is distorted by more than agricultural policies. In developing countries especially,...
Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings, And Market Access (2000)
Joseph F. Francois, Joseph F. Francois, Will Martin, Will Martin
COMMERCIAL POLICY VARIABILITY, BINDINGS, AND MARKET ACCESS Joseph F. Francois and Will Martin Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, like...
Would Developing Countries Gain from Inclusion of Manufactures in the WTO Negotiations? (1999)
Paper prepared for the World Bank's Conference on Developing Countries and the Millennium Round, Council Room, WTO Secretariat, Centre William Rappard, Geneva, 19-20 September. The importance of...
Multilateral Disciplines for Investment-Related Policies? (1999)
Bernard Hoekman, Kamal Saggi, Will Martin, Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga, Arvind Panagariya, ...
This paper asks whether there is a strong case for developing countries to support the creation of a multilateral agreement on investment. We identify a number of potential gains from cooperation:
Policy Discussion Paper (1999)
Thomas W. Hertel, Thomas W. Hertel, Kym Anderson, Kym Anderson, Joseph F. Francois, ...
Much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture is distorted by more than agricultural policies. In developing countries especially,...
The East Asian crisis: investigating causes and policy responses (1998)
McKibbin, Warwick J, Martin, Will
We use a forward looking modeling framework to capture some of the major interactions between asset markets and trade involved in the East Asian crisis and its aftermath. We take the primary cause of...
Commercial Policy Uncertainty, the Expected (1998)
Joseph F. Francois, Will Martin, Anne Krueger, Aaditya Mattoo, Doug Nelson, Hdkan Nordström, ...
(Revised) Abstract: Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines like OECD industrial tariff bindings negotiated under GATT since 1947 and new...
The East Asian crisis: investigating causes and policy responses (1998)
McKibbin, Warwick J, Martin, Will
We use a forward looking modeling framework to capture some of the major interactions between asset markets and trade involved in the East Asian crisis and its aftermath. We take the primary cause of...
The Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Policy: A Simple Unified Account (1996)
Anderson, James E., Martin , Will
A simple general equilibrium model of an economy with distortionary taxes and public goods is used to extend, unify and clean up the welfare analysis of changes in taxation, redistribution and the...
T.: An economics approach to hard computational problems (1996)
Elena Ianchovichina, Will Martin, World Bank
China’s forthcoming accession to the WTO involves reforms across a wide range of sectors in China, both in directly trade-related sectors and behind the border. The implications of these reforms...
Explaining the Relative Decline of Agriculture: A Supply-Side Analysis for Indonesia (1993)
The relative decline of agriculture in growing economies is a central feature of economic development and a major influence on agricultural policies. The literature on the causes of this decline has...
Doha merchandise trade reform : what's at stake for developing countries ?
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is...
An exact approach for evaluating the benefits from technological change
Martin, Will, Alston, Julian M.
It is commonly believed that taxing agricultural commodities in developing countries, and subsidizing agricultural commodities in industrial countries, reduces incentives in the developing countries...
Implications of agricultural trade liberalization for the developing countries
Salazar P. Brandao, Antonio, Martin, Will
The authors examine the implications for the developing countries of a range of liberalization proposals along the lines of the Dunkel proposal. First, the analysis considers liberalization in the...
Growth, globalization, and gains from the Uruguay Round
Hertel, Thomas W., Bach, Christian F., Dimaranan, Betina, Martin, Will
Emphasizing the importance of evaluating the Uruguay Round in the context of a changing world economy, the authors base their projections on a model that incorporates certain economic shifts: 1) that...
What would happen if all developing countries expanded their manufactured exports?
Despite the achievements of the export-oriented economies of East Asia, many policymakers doubt that a development path led by manufactured exports is feasible for all developing countries. The...
Evaluating public expenditures when governments must rely on distortionary taxation
Anderson, James E., Martin, Will
Anderson and Martin provide simple, robust rules for evaluating public spending in distorted economies. Their analysis integrates, within a clean unified framework, previous treatments of project...
Outgrowing resource dependence theory and some recent developments
Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines four changes that reduce this dependence: (i) accumulation of capital and skills; (ii) changes in protection...
Would multilateral trade reform benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is...
Productivity growth and convergence in agriculture and manufacturing
Martin, Will, Mitra, Devashish
The authors examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing in a large sample of countries spanning many levels of development over the period...
Choosing formulas for market access negotiation : efficiency and market access considerations
Manole, Vlad, Martin, Will, Francois, Joseph
An important issue in multilateral trade negotiations is the approach taken to reduce tariffs. The authors believe that there are important advantages in formula approaches and survey a range of...
Distortions to world trade: impacts on agricultural markets and farm incomes
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
The authors provide estimates of the impact that removing all merchandise trade distortions (including agricultural subsidies) would have on food and agricultural production, trade, and incomes....
Developing Countries' Changing Participation in World Trade
Recent years have seen substantial reductions in trade policy and other barriers inhibiting developing country participation in world trade. Lower barriers have contributed to a dramatic shift in the...
Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization
Elena Ianchovichina, Will Martin
This article presents estimates of the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization. China is estimated to be the biggest beneficiary (US$31 billion a year from trade reforms in...
Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What Is at Stake for Developing Countries?
The linkage model of the global economy and the latest Global Trade Analysis Project (gtap) database (version 6.05) are used to examine the impact of current merchandise trade barriers and...
Costs of Taxation and the Benefits of Public Goods: The Role of Income Effects
Will Martin, James E. Anderson
The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify very much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good...
The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access
ANDERSON, KYM, MARTIN, WILL, VALENZUELA, ERNESTO
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs...
Distortions to World Trade: Impacts on Agricultural Markets and Farm Incomes
The latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project database and the Linkage model of the global economy (projected to 2015) are used to estimate the impact of removing all merchandise trade...
Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What’s at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is...
Outgrowing Resource Dependence: Theory and Evidence
Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines three changes that reduce this dependence: (i) accumulation of capital and skills; (ii) changes in...
Assessing the Implications of Merchandise Trade Liberalization in China's Accession to WTO
Elena Ianchovichina, Will Martin, Emiko Fukase
China’s forthcoming accession to the WTO will be a turning point for China, and for the rest of the world. It involves reforms across a wide range of sectors in China, both in directly...
The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Valenzuela, Ernesto
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs...
The East Asian Crisis: Investigating Causes and Policy Responses
Warwick J McKibbin, Will Martin
We use a forward looking modeling framework to capture some of the major interactions between asset markets and trade involved in the East Asian crisis and its aftermath. We take the primary cause of...
Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations
Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas such as the "Swiss" formula. However, wide variations in initial tariff rates...
The effect of the United States'granting Most Favored Nation status to Vietnam
Since the U.S.embargo on trade with Vietnam was lifted in 1994, exports from Vietnam to the United States have risen dramatically. However, Vietnam remains one of the few countries to which the...
A Quantitative evaluation of Vietnam's accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area
Vietnam's accession into the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has been an important step in its integration into the world economy. The authors use a multi-region, multi-sector computable general...
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions through joint implementation of projects
Efficient reduction of carbon dioxide emissions requires coordination of international efforts. Approaches proposed include carbon taxes, emission quotas, and jointly implemented energy projects. To...
Trade policy reform in the East Asian transition economies
The performance of the East Asian transition economies in export and income growth has been strikingly better than that of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The East Asian...
Trade liberalization in China's accession to the World Trade Organization
Ianchovichina, Elena, Martin, Will
Before reform, China's trade was dominated by a few foreign trade corporations with monopolies on the trade of specific ranges of products. Planners could control imports through these corporations...
Implications for South Asian countries for abolishing the Multifibre Arrangement
Kathuria, Sanjay, Martin, Will, Bhardwaj, Anjali
The authors provide a simple introduction to the economics of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) and use available empirical evidence to examine its impact on exports of garments and textiles, focusing...
Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda
Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of...
Costs of taxation and the benefits of public goods : the role of income effects
Martin, Will, Anderson, James E.
The fact that raising taxes can increase taxed labor supply through income effects is frequently used to justify much lower measures of the marginal welfare cost of taxes and greater public good...
Global impacts of Doha trade reform scenarios on poverty
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE...
The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Valenzuela, Ernesto
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs...
Agriculture's decline in Indonesia : supply or demand determined
Agriculture's share in an economy invariably declines as per capita income rises and as the economy develops. The literature on its causes has focused on the relative price effects arising from...
Would Developing Countries Gain from Inclusion of Manufactures in the WTO Negotiations?
Hertel, Thomas W., Will Martin
Paper prepared for the World Bank's Conference on Developing Countries and the Millennium Round, Council Room, WTO Secretariat, Centre William Rappard, Geneva, 19-20 September. The importance of...
Consequences of Alternative Formulas for Agricultural Tariff Cuts
Sebastien Jean, David Laborde, Will Martin
This paper assesses the impacts of alternative approaches to liberalizing agricultural market access within the broad guidelines provided by July 2004 Framework Agreement for the Doha Development...
Aziz Elbehri, Thomas Hertel, Will Martin
The agreement to abolish the quotas on textiles and clothing introduced under the Multi-fiber Arrangement (MFA) will create a new and much more competitive world market for India's exports of...
Producer Surplus without Apology? Evaluating Investments in R&D.
Martin, Will, Alston, Julian M
Comparison of producer surplus with definitive measures based on the profit function reveals potential problems with using changes in producer surplus to measure the benefits of some common types of...
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy...
Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations
Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff--cutting formulas such as the "Swiss" formula. However, wide variations in initial tariff rates...
Agricultural trade reform under the Doha Agenda: some key issues *
A successful agreement on agriculture is essential for an overall agreement under the WTO's Doha trade negotiations. Reaching agreement has been difficult, and as of August 2007, much still remains...
Developing Countries and the Next Round of WTO Negotiations
Rajesh Chadha, Bernard Hoekman, Will Martin, Ademola Oyejide, Mari Pangestu, Diana Tussie, ...
AGRICULTURAL AND NAMA REFORM UNDER DOHA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIES
This paper provides estimates of the potential gains to the Asia Pacific region from completely freeing merchandise trade globally and from partial liberalizations that might emerge from the Doha...
The Doha agenda and agricultural trade reform: the role of economic analysis
This article shows that research on international agricultural trade reform can make much greater contributions to understanding than was feasible in earlier trade negotiations. While current models...
Core Labor Standards and Competitiveness: Implications for Global Trade Policy.
One of the principal arguments for inclusion of core labor standards in the WTO is that weak labor standards provide an illegitimate boost to competitiveness and may result in a "race to the bottom"...
Second-Best Linkages and the Gains from Global Reform of Manufactures Trade.
Hertel, Thomas W, Martin, Will
The Uruguay Round's built-in agenda for future WTO negotiations omitted further liberalization in manufactures, yet this paper shows that there are large potential gains to be had from such tariff...
Asia-Pacific Food Markets and Trade in 2005: A Global, Economy-wide Perspective
Anderson, Kym, Dimaranan, Betina, Hertel, Thomas W, Martin, Will
Rapid industrialization in East Asia, particularly China, is raising questions about who will feed the region in the next century and how Asia will pay for its food imports. The paper addresses this...
Commercial Policy Uncertainty, the Expected Cost of Protection, and Market Access
Joseph F. Francois, Will Martin
Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines like OECD industrial tariff bindings negotiated under GATT since 1947 and new Uruguay Round bindings on...
Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings, and Market Access
Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We...
Agriculture and Non-Agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round
Hertel, Thomas W., Kym Anderson, Joseph Francois, Will Martin
Published in "Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda From a Development Perspective", edited by M. D. Ingco and L. A. Winters, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press Much remains to be done...
The Welfare Analysis of Fiscal Policy: A Simple Unified Account
James E. Anderson, Will Martin
A simple general equilibrium model of an economy with distortionary taxes and public goods is used to extend, unify and clean up the welfare analysis of changes in taxation, redistribution and the...
Multilateral Trade Rules and the Expected Cost of Protection
Francois, Joseph, Martin, Will
Protection unconstrained by rules typically varies considerably over time. The policy disciplines introduced in the Uruguay Round in `new' areas such as agricultural, services, and developing country...
Economic Growth and Policy Reform in the APEC Region: Trade and Welfare Implications by 2005
Anderson, Kym, Dimaranan, Betina, Hertel, Thomas W, Martin, Will
This paper examines the impacts of key trade reforms likely to affect the APEC region over the next decade. It does so by taking an economy-wide perspective using projections to the year 2005, based...
Commercial Policy Variability, Bindings and Market Access
Francois, Joseph, Martin, Will
Protection unconstrained by rules often varies substantially over time. Rules-based disciplines, such as WTO tariff bindings and bindings on market access in services, constrain this variability. We...
Formula Approaches for Market Access Negotiations
Francois, Joseph, Martin, Will
Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas such as the ‘Swiss’ formula. Wide variations in initial tariff rates between...
Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
This paper examines whether, in the presence of trade preferences, Sub-Saharan African economies, and especially its poorest households, could gain from multilateral trade reform. The World Bank’s...
CAN THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM ACCOMMODATE MORE EAST ASIAN STYLE EXPORTERS?
A CGE model of world trade is used to examine whether many developing countries can simultaneously expand manufactures exports along East Asian lines without suffering serious terms of trade decline...
Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization
Sherman Robinson, Zhi Wang, Will Martin
This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries...
Explaining the Relative Decline of Agriculture: A Supply-Side Analysis for Indonesia.
The relative decline of agriculture in growing economies is a central feature of economic development and a major influence on agricultural policies. The literature on the causes of this decline has...
Border Price Changes and Domestic Welfare in the Presence of Distortions: A Comment.
Alston, Julian M, Martin, Will
The welfare impacts of border price changes in the presence of distortions are always equal to the undistorted welfare impacts plus the induced change in the social costs of the pre-existing...
Developing Countries and a New Round of WTO Negotiations
Thomas W. Hertel, Bernard M. Hoekman, Will Martin
This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity-building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating...
Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?
This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's Linkage model of the global economy is...
Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin, Scott Rozelle
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since...
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...
Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited
Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, Marianne, Martin, Will, Sandri, Damiano, Valenzuela, Ernesto
Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which...
The Doha development agenda : what's on the table?
The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved...
Estimating the Gravity Equation when Zero Trade Flows are Frequent
In this paper we estimate the gravity model allowing for the pervasive issues of heteroscedasticity and zero bilateral trade flows identified in an influential paper by Santos Silva and Tenreyro. We...
Choosing sensitive agricultural products in trade negotiations:
Jean, Sebastien, Laborde, David, Martin, Will
"The formula approach used in many trade negotiations involves large formula cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities that allow smaller cuts for selected products. Difficulties in evaluating the...
Choosing Sensitive Agricultural Products in Trade Negotiations
Sebastien Jean, David Laborde, Will Martin
The formula approach used in many trade negotiations involves large formula cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities that allow smaller cuts for selected products. Difficulties in evaluating the...
Agricultural Trade Reform Under the Doha Agenda: Ready for Takeoff?
A successful agreement on agriculture is critical for an overall agreement under the Doha negotiations. But before the final agreement is known, some critical decisions must be made about issues such...
The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will, Valenzuela, Ernesto
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs...
Sensitive Products: Selection and Implications for Agricultural Trade Negotiations
Jean, Sebastien, Laborde, David, Martin, Will
The current negotiating framework for WTO negotiations on agriculture includes flexibilities for "sensitive" products to be chosen by the importer. Without knowing which products their partners are...
The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis
This paper shows that research on international agricultural trade reform can make much greater contributions to understanding than was feasible in earlier trade negotiations. Part of this is due to...
Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited*
ANDERSON, KYM, KURZWEIL, MARIANNE, MARTIN, WILL, SANDRI, DAMIANO, VALENZUELA, ERNESTO
Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which...
ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF BEEF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS IN THE US IMPORT MARKET: COMMENT
International Relations/Trade, Livestock Production/Industries,
TESTING FOR CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEMAND FOR MEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Quarterly data from 1962 to 1983 for beef, lamb, mutton, pig meat and poultry were used to test for constancy in the structure of meat demand in Australia. The cumulative sum, cumulative sum of...
PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY AND AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY REFORM
Recent discussion of the process of policy reform has tended to focus on public and private interest theories of public choice as alternative models. The analysis of Australian agricultural policy...
A Note on Cost Functions and the Regression Fallacy
Random variation in output may lead to serious bias in cost function estimates. Despite the availability of simple, consistent instrumental variable estimators to deal with this problem, most...
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...
Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited
Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, Marianne, Martin, Will, Sandri, Damiano, Valenzuela, Ernesto
Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which...
Estimating the Gravity Model When Zero Trade Flows are Frequent
In this paper we estimate the gravity model allowing for the pervasive issues of heteroscedasticity and zero bilateral trade flows identified in an influential recent paper by Santos Silva and...
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...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Martin, Will, Liu, Yu
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Methodology for Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives
Anderson, Kym, Kurzweil, Marianne, Martin, Will, Sandri, Damiano, Valenzuela, Ernesto
distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Options for Global Trade Reform
Despite the decision of the WTO members to launch a new round of negotiations at their Doha Ministerial in November 2001, developing countries continue to have very real concerns on a number of key...
The Uruguay Round and the Developing Countries
The fifteen years of the GATT between the conclusion of the Tokyo Round in 1979 and the finalisation of the Uruguay Round in 1994 witnessed a sea change in attitudes toward the role of international...
Options for Global Trade Reform
Despite the decision of the WTO members to launch a new round of negotiations at their Doha Ministerial in November 2001, developing countries continue to have very real concerns on a number of key...
Changes in trade and domestic distortions affecting China's agriculture
Huang, Jikun, Liu, Yu, Martin, Will, Rozelle, Scott
This paper assesses the implications of China's trade and domestic policies for incentives to producers in China. It uses a price comparison methodology (nominal rates of assistance--at the border...
Economic development in emerging Asian markets: implications for Europe
Will Martin, Elena Ianchovichina, Betina Dimaranan
The impacts of faster growth in China and India for Europe are analysed taking into account terms-of-trade effects, second-best welfare impacts and improvements in product quality and variety. More...
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...
How will growth in China and India affect the world economy?
Betina Dimaranan, Elena Ianchovichina, Will Martin
Export growth, Terms of trade, China, India, General equilibrium, F11, F12, F43, F47,