The story of agricultural policy in Northeast Asia over the past 50 years illustrates the dramatic changes that can occur in distortions to agricultural incentives faced by producers and consumers at different stages of economic development. In this study of Japan, the Republic of Korea (the...

Recent analyses of the extension of the GATT-WTO trade regime to agriculture and other sectors emphasize the secular decline of nation--state power. New forms of global regulation, it is argued, make it difficult for the state to intervene effectively to counter sectoral displacement threats....