How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions: a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis

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dc.creatorDiao, Xinshen
dc.creatorFan, Shenggen
dc.creatorZhang, Xiaobo
dc.date2002
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:58Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:58Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:04:59Z
dc.descriptionThis study constructs a regional CGE model of China to analyze the differential regional impacts of China’s WTO accession on agricultural production, trade, and farmers’ income. The results show that China’s WTO accession will generally improve the total welfare but will widen existing gaps among regions and sectors. It is expected that the agricultural sector will suffer if only agricultural trade is liberalized, as cheap imports of agricultural products, particularly grains, will increase and domestic agricultural production and farmers’ agricultural income will decline. Full trade liberalization, i.e., lifting trade barriers in both agriculture and non-agriculture will benefit farmers and agriculture at the national level. However, the increase in rural income is still smaller than the increase in urban income, which implies that the rural- urban income gap may be further widened. Furthermore, among the regions, the less-developed rural areas will benefit little or even suffer because their major production activities and income sources are still from agriculture, especially from traditional agricultural activities such as grain production.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155995
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93996
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDiao, Xinshen; Fan, Shenggen; Zhang, Xiaobo. 2002. How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions: a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis. TMD Discussion Paper 87. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155995
dc.subjectwto
dc.subjectagricultural productivity
dc.subjectfarm income
dc.subjecttrade liberalization
dc.titleHow China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions: a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis
dc.typeWorking Paper

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