There is widespread concern about the effect of the Uruguay Round policy changes on world agricultural prices and consequently upon the welfare of developing countries. Assessing welfare changes with the standard terms of trade effect calculation can be misleading for distorted economies, since...

In the year 2000, Tunisia and the European Union are to begin negotiations on the liberalization of agricultural trade between them under the terms of a partnership agreement signed in 1995. The political attachment of Tunisia to Europe will provide an opportunity for it to leave behind the...

The Doha Round, launched in 2001, is the longest going (still unfinished) Round of negotiations in the history of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor GATT. The main roadblock to Doha’s successful completion is disagreement on agricultural issues – the Special Safeguard...

This paper examines the role of developing country coalitions with an exclusive or significant African membership within the agriculture debate in the ongoing Doha Development Agenda. In 2001, the Doha Declaration commenced the current World Trade Organization (WTO) round of negotiations,...

The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession...

The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China's policy will likely respond as the nation enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly review China's existing agriculture policy and past performance of China's agriculture and how it has...