The Effects of Agricultural Trade Liberalisation under the Doha Development Agenda with Special Reference to the Asia Pacific Region: A Brief Survey

The main purpose of this paper is to survey the results of recent quantitative studies on the effects of Agricultural Trade Liberalization with special reference to the Asia-Pacific region under the July Framework Agreement or the “July Package” of the Doha Development Agenda, DDA (the decision adopted by the General Council of the WTO on 1 August 2004, see WTO, 2004, WT/L/579).Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Doha Development

Studies in Trade and Investment - AGRICULTURAL TRADE - PLANTING THE SEEDS OF REGIONAL LIBERALIZATION IN ASIA

this chapter attempts to evaluate the impact of agricultural trade reform in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on RTAs.Agricultural trade liberalization, Asia-Pacific region, preferential trade agreements

Trade Liberalisation and Income Distribution: Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Abstract: Over the last few decades there has been a great deal of interest in investigating the link between trade liberalisation and income distribution in developing countries. Although there is a significant amount of empirical evidence to support the positive link between trade liberalisation and growth, the evidence on the relationship between trade liberalisation and income distribution among different household groups has been inconclusive. This study investigates the effects of trade liberalisation on income distribution in the Sri Lankan economy using a computable general equilibrium model. In terms of income distribution it can be observed that tariff reduction in manufacturing industries tends to widen the income gap between the low and the high income earners. Understanding these distributional effects of trade liberalisation will help in designing better targeted and robust welfare programmes in order to mitigate the adjustment costs of further liberalisation in developing countries like Sri Lanka

MANAGING THE TOURISM-LED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN POST-WAR SRI LANKA

The Sri Lankan tourism industry has been booming since the end of war in 2009. Considering the key role that tourism can play in post-war economic development, the Sri Lankan government launched a Tourism Development Strategy (TDS). This study has evaluated the feasibility of achieving the targets of the TDS by building a simple tourism demand model and by undertaking a qualitative comparative assessment with a selected tourism booms in a number of war-affected countries. The findings suggest that the TDS targets are achievable provided the country manages to expand supply of tourism related infrastructure (hard as well as soft) in a price competitive manner

Dutch Disease in a Developing Country: The Case of Foreign Capital Inflows to Sri Lanka

Several attempts have been made in recent years to investigate the Dutch disease type effects arising from windfall gains in Developing countries (LDCs) by using the traditional Australian Dutch disease model. This paper is another such attempt to examine the Dutch disease type consequences of foreign capital inflows to Sri Lanka within an ceonomy-wide framework. The results of our study show that this traditional model does not adequately address the impact of windfall gains on the economic structure of LDCs. Therefore, some modifications to the traditional model are needed to explain Dutch disease type consequences in these countries

Trade and Poverty in South Asia: An Interpretive Survey

Trade liberalisation, Poverty, South Asia, Literature survey