Long Run Implications of WTO Accession for Agriculture in China

China’s WTO accession: trade and policy implications for Pacific island countries

After a long wait of some 15 years, China finally became a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001. This was a major milestone not only for China but also for the WTO, boosting the coverage and potential impact of the multilateral trading system. China can now fully participate in the WTO and help shape the rules on which the multilateral trading system is based. This deve...

Long run Impacts of China’s WTO Accession on Farm- Nonfarm Income Inequality and Rural Poverty

Many fear China’s accession to WTO will impoverish its rural people, via greater import competition in its agricultural markets. We explore that possibility bearing in mind that, even if producer prices of some (land-intensive) farm products fall, prices of other (labor-intensive) farm products could rise. Also, the removal of restrictions on exports of textiles and clothing could boost town an...

Implications of WTO Accession for Poverty in China

The Nature of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession

The authors would like to thank the research assistance of Yuping Xie. This work could not have been done without him. We also acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of and participants in the World Bank sponsored meeting on the " Impact of Accession into WTO on China. " We acknowledge the financial support of the World Bank's Trade and Rural Development units..

POLITICS AND WHEAT TRADE: IMPLICATIONS OF USING WTO ACCESSION AS LEVERAGE TO INCREASED MARKET ACCESS IN CHINA (The TCK Quarantine Link)

A game-theoretic model was developed to analyze bargaining between the US and China in the context of linking China’s TCK phytosanitary quarantine on wheat imports from the Pacific Northwest and China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). From this model, scenarios were derived that characterize the future of US-Sino bilateral relations. A spatial world wheat trade model (PNWSHIP) ...