Helping the World's Poorest Nations Benefit from Global Trade

摘要

The theory that trade is good for development is not really in doubt. The Peterson Institute for International Economics, for one, has estimated that global free trade could end poverty for 500 million people over 15 years. Most other economists, including at the World Bank and the OECD, have concluded that lowering trade barriers - unilaterally, regionally, or globally - is one of the most effective ways to "develop out of poverty."