"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as …

the World Trade Organization, it is worthwhile to reflect on the WTO's contributions to global welfare since its inception … Review 89(1): 215-48, March -- Bagwell, Kyle and Robert W. Staiger (2002), The Economics of the World Trading System … History of Europe, Volume 8, edited by P. Mathias and S. Pollard, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press …