Are the poverty effects of trade policies invisible?

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-211

  Verma, Monika ^a   Hertel, Thomas W ^a   Valenzuela, Ernesto ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TRADE; COMMODITY MARKET; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL ECONOMY; TARIFF STRUCTURE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION; TRADE POLICY; TRADE REFORM; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 80053195106     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhr014     Document Type: Article

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