Implications of WTO Accession for Poverty in China * Thomas HERTEL Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University Fan ZHAI Department of Policy and Fiscal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, PRC And Zhi WANG Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture December 14, 2002 Revised Version of a Paper prepared for presentation at the DRC/World Bank Workshop on “China’s WTO Accession and Poverty”, Beijing, China, June 2002. * The views expressed in the paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to their affiliated institution.