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A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …
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For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic...
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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …
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unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …
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the WTO’s Doha round. The results suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in sub …
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the WTO may add to that difficulty. New agricultural biotechnologies could ease that situation. The adoption and spread of …
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unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …
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This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World BankÂ’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural...
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This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World BankÂ’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and...
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