On title page: Department for International Development.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-405).

pt. 1. Linking Trade Liberalization and Poverty -- 1. About this Handbook -- 2. The Debate over Trade Liberalization -- 3. Poverty and the Poor -- 4. Linking Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Conceptual Framework -- 5. Previous Approaches to Linking Trade and Poverty -- 6. Implementing the Conceptual Framework -- 7. Trade Reform and Anti-Poverty Policy -- pt. 2. The Effects of Specific Liberalizations -- 8. Introduction to Part 2 -- 9. Agricultural Trade Reform -- 10. Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) -- 11. Trade in Services -- 12. Liberalizing Manufacturing Trade -- 13. Export and Domestic Subsidies -- 14. Anti-dumping -- 15. Labour Standards -- 16. Environmental Standards -- 17. Competition Policy -- 18. Investment and Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMs).

Sponsored by the UK Department of International Development, this text deals directly with concerns that reform may have adverse effects on poverty in developing countries. The first part of the book recaps the current debates over trade policy and anti-poverty policy and the connections between them. The second part explores ten areas of trade policy that are likely to figure in future trade negiotiations and examines the possible impact upon poverty in each case. The authors argue that the poverty impact of trade liberalization is extremely country specific, being pro-poor in some cases and anti-poor in others. However, they believe that it is better to tackle poverty concerns directly (for example, by safety nets and investments to facilitate structural reform), rather than through the continuation of protectionist policies. Given the popular suspicions about trade liberalization, this handbook should make an important contribution to debate on globalization and poverty.

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