Mar 19, 2010
This week, I’m joined on the
Global Prosperity Wonkcast by Kimberly Ann
Elliott, a senior fellow here at the Center for Global
Development. Kim’s research focuses on ways in which rich country
trade policy affects the developing world. She currently chairs
CGD’s
working group on Global Trade Preference Reform.
Trade preferences are a way for countries to offer access to their markets to poor countries, in spite of other import tariffs or quotas that might otherwise apply. Kim tells me that most countries, including a growing number of advanced developing countries, have some form of trade preference program. However, she says, not all of them benefit developing countries very much.
Read a full summary on the Wonkcast site.