the studies also found that rural poverty would be cut much more than urban poverty in all cases whether from reform at home or abroad and whether or not it included nonfarm goods however it cannot be guaranteed that every developing country would be better off unless there is a strong economic growth dividend from reform not captured in the comparative static modelling used in the present study inequality within the rural or the urban household grouping would not alter much following full trade reform suggesting that the predominant impact of trade reform would be to reduce urbanrural inequality