In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and … ongoing global negotiations on climate change and further rounds will almost certainly follow. We highlight both the vast … the negotiations is between OECD countries on the one hand, and lower wage, large population, rapidly growing countries …

by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack … have been made as part of the Mode 4 GATS negotiations in the WTO, suggesting that the GATS/WTO may be an imperfect …

"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 …