important factor was the large increase in biofuels production in the U.S. and the EU. Without these increases, global wheat and … food prices raises an important policy issue, since much of the increase was due to EU and U.S. government policies that …

"The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade … policies as assessed by the private sector. In part this can be explained by the fact that the prospect of EU accession makes … GATS less relevant as a commitment device for a subset of transition economies. But for many of the non-EU accession …