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subsidies have any rationale on environmental grounds, and the environmental case for the elimination of fishing subsidies. If … tariffs, and limitations on domestic supports and export subsidies, then environmental concerns could enter in all of these. I …
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Governments and businesses worldwide are preparing for a carbon-constrained future and evaluating different policy instruments to combat climate change. Agricultural production is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and practices that reduce or offset these emissions can...
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Developing members at the WTO are faced with shrinking policy space to support their agricultural sector owing to the restrictive provisions of the Amber Box. Contrastingly, most developed members are able to provide high levels of product-specific support without breaching their commitments, on...
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India has submitted notifications to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic support to agricultural producers in 1995-2003. This paper reviews India's notifications and summarizes the related discussion in the WTO Committee on Agriculture of some key issues relating to the rules of the...
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This paper employs the GTAP computable general equilibrium model and dataset to analyse the implications of domestic support reductions in the context of agricultural trade liberalisation. Three specific issues are addressed: overhang in domestic support, the accurate distinction of the boxes in...
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In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...
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issues in the global trading system: agriculture subsidies. Agriculture subsidies depress global prices and undermine the … agricultural subsidies issue, arguing that it is now out of date and no longer corresponds with the emerging reality. A momentous …’s largest subsidizer, profoundly transforming the global politics of agricultural subsidies. From a North-South battle, WTO …
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The producer support estimate (the successor to the producer support equivalent) calculated by the OECD is widely used as an indicator of distortions created by agricultural policies. In this paper we demonstrate that changes in the relative (percentage) PSE are not an accurate indicator of the...
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(subsidies) in the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) and highlights the available policy space with Member Countries to support …
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