escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within …

escalation facing Africa, improvements in the productivity of agricultural processing, and reductions in trade barriers within …

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … merchandise trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTOÂ’s Doha Development …

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … merchandise trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda …

This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade … current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the WTO's Doha round. The results … suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (and in …

they willmove towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading offreductions in peak tariffs against …

Agricultural trade is vitally important for achieving the goal of ending hunger by 2030 enshrined in the second … Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). While trade is frequently seen as posing threats to this vitally important goal, it can in … fact play a major role in achieving it. Trade helps in a number of ways, by allowing countries to take advantage of their …

entry of China (and hence Taiwan) into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the failure to fully abolish the bilateral … quotas on textiles and clothing trade as promised under the Uruguay Round. A slow-down in farm productivity growth could be … net imports of food. On the other hand, the trade reform that is likely to accompany China’s WTO membership would greatly …

Most of the large tariff reductions achieved in multilateral trade negotiations have involved tariff-cutting formulas … target how far they will move towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading off reductions in peak tariffs …