Until the Uruguay Round, agricultural trade policies were subject to few multilateral disciplines. In this situation, the interplay of special-interest lobbying pressures resulted in this sector becoming heavily distorted. One of the great achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations...

Market growth and structural changes will affect the results of quantitative analyses of the Uruguay Round. Rapid economic growth in Asia and relatively deeper cuts in protection in that region, result in larger proportionate welfare gains in the year 2005 than in the year 1992. We also find...

This paper assesses the determinants of differential gains from trade policy reform across countries. The theoretical model shows that asymmetrical features of the world economy, including: the relative size of the differentiated products sector in each country, the dominance of domestic markets...

Rapid industrialization in East Asia, particularly China, is raising questions about who will feed the region in the next century and how Asia will pay for its food imports. The paper addresses this question by first reviewing existing food sector projections and then taking an economy-wide...