Poor Numbers: The Impact
of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty
November 2004, Mark Weisbrot, David Rosnick and Dean Baker
Many
economists and policy analysts have promoted trade liberalization in rich
countries as the most effective way to reduce poverty in the developing world.
Cline (2004), one of the leading references on this topic, projected that rich
country trade liberalization would lift 540 million people out of poverty. This
paper analyses Cline’s projections
and finds that the impact of trade liberalization on poverty would be very
small. (BP200411B)
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