TY - GEN

AU - Ianchovichina, Elena

AU - Huang, Jikun

AU - Anderson, Kym

TI - Long-Run Impacts of China's WTO Accession on Farm-Nonfarm Income Inequality and Rural Poverty

PB - The World Bank

KW - Agricultural Policy

KW - Agriculture

KW - Crops and Crop Management Systems

KW - Economic Growth

KW - Economic Theory and Research

KW - Farm Households

KW - Farm Incomes

KW - Farm Products

KW - Farm Sector

KW - Farm Work

KW - Farmers

KW - Food Insecurity

KW - Food and Beverage Industry

KW - Income

KW - Income Inequality

KW - Industry

KW - International Economics & Trade

KW - Livestock and Animal Husbandry

KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth

KW - Poor

KW - Poverty Reduction

KW - Private Sector Development

KW - Rural Development

KW - Rural Development Knowledge

KW - Rural Poverty Reduction

KW - Social Protections and Labor

KW - World Trade Organization

PY - 2003

N2 - Many fear China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will impoverish its rural people by way of greater import competition in its agricultural markets. Anderson, Huang, and Ianchovichina 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 and village enterprises, so demand for unskilled labor for nonfarm work in rural areas may grow even if demand for farm labor in aggregate falls. New estimates, from the global economywide numerical simulation model known as GTAP, of the likely changes in agricultural and other product prices as a result of WTO accession are drawn on to examine empirically the factor reward implications of China's WTO accession. The results suggest farm-nonfarm and Western-Eastern income inequality may well rise in China but rural-urban income inequality need not. The authors conclude with some policy suggestions for alleviating any pockets of farm household poverty that may emerge as a result of WTO accession. This paper—a product of the Economic Policy Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network—is part of a larger effort in the network to assess the impact of China's WTO accession

CY - Washington, D.C

UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2

ER -