as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy - generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …

World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

An important issue in multilateral trade negotiations is the approach taken to reduce tariffs. The authors believe that …

This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and … range of countries. The negotiations faced a need for balance between discipline in reducing tariffs and hence creating the … market access gains that are central to the negotiations, and flexibility in managing political pressures. While the approach …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … international prices that have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer prices, they estimate the change in real income at the …