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Agricultural Trade Reform
and Poverty in the Asia-Pacific:
A Survey and Some New Results
John Gilbert
Series Editor:
Amarakoon Bandara
Economic Affairs Officer,
Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division
Economic and mission for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Building, Rajadamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Email: amarakoon@
WP/08/01
ESCAP Working Paper
Agricultural Trade Reform and Poverty in the Asia-Pacific:
A Survey and Some New Results
Prepared by John Gilbert*
Authorized for distribution by Ravi Ratnayake
May 2008
Abstract
The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and should not necessarily be
considered as reflecting the views or carrying the endorsement of the United Nations. Working
Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to ments and to
further debate. This publication has been issued without formal editing.
We review the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade policy reform
and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to
economies in the ESCAP region. We then use the GTAP model to evaluate the
possible impacts of the most recently proposed