How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain from the Next Wto Round?

Center for Inernational Economic Studies Discussion Paper No 0145

35 Pages Posted: 7 Jan 2002

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Kym Anderson

University of Adelaide - Centre for International Economic Studies (CIES); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Australian National University

Shunli Yao

University of International Business and Economics

Date Written: November 2001

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.

Keywords: Trade policy, WTO, multilateral negotiations, developing country gains

JEL Classification: F13, F15, F17, O19

Suggested Citation

Anderson, Kym and Yao, Shunli, How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain from the Next Wto Round? (November 2001). Center for Inernational Economic Studies Discussion Paper No 0145, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=295480 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.295480

Kym Anderson (Contact Author)

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Shunli Yao

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