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"Anderson offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links between poverty, economic growth, and trade, he reports modelling results showing that farm product markets remain the most costly of all good market distortions in World trade. The author focuses on what such reform might mean for developing Countries both with an without their involvement in the multilateral trade negotiations. What becomes clear is that if those Countries want to maximize their benefits from the Dohan round, they need also to free up their own domestic product and factor markets so their farmers are better able to take advantage of new market opportunities abroad. The author

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