The paper is on three subjects. Topical information is given on the development and management of major EC agricultural markets and on recent changes in the Common Agricultural Policy. The EC's inflexible position in the GATT negotiations which caused the Uruguay Round to fail is dealt with and...

In the period under review the New Zealand agricultural sector has continued to be sensitive to changes in macroeconomic policies in the economy as a whole. This has not altered with the change of Government in October 1990. The combined forces of low commodity prices, increased costs, and...

There have been significant changes to the sugar industry's regulatory regime over the past five years. New investment is flowing into all sectors of the industry. Consumers have benefited by rationalisation of the white sugar industry. The raw sugar industry is undergoing a period of sustained...

In the first part of this paper I wish to make some observations about the general subject of the workshop - the extent to which the sustainability debate has affected economic policy advice. This is based mainly on the experience with salinity control in Victoria. The second part is a...

The rapid growth of the Chinese economy during the 1980s was accompanied by an equally rapid shift in China's comparative advantage towards light manufactures, such as textiles and clothing, at the expense of agriculture. If that economy were to resume the economic reform process that was...

Hen quotas were virtually freely transferable within Victoria when they were first introduced in 1975. The 1980's have witnessed a series of changes to regulations over quota transfers. Initially these changes were components of a plan to phase out quotas but that is no longer on the policy...