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Agriculture and the WTO : creating a trading system for development / Merlinda D. Ingco,John D. Nash
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TextPublication details: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2004Description: xvii, 387 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN: - 082135485X
- 9780821354858
- World Trade Organization
- Tariff on farm produce
- Produce trade -- Government policy
- Export subsidies
- Free trade
- Produce trade -- Developing countries
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
- Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
- Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- 382.41/ 21 ING
- HF2651.F27 A2327 2004
- HF2651.F27 A2327 2004
Contents:
Summary: Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade
What's at stake : developing-country interests in the DOHA development round / Merlinda D. Ingco, John D. Nash -- Trade agreements : achievements and issues ahead / Merlinda D. Ingco, John Croome -- Export competition policies / Harry de Gorter, Lilian Ruiz, Merlinda D. Ingco -- Market access : economics and the effects of policy instruments / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Laura Ignacio -- Quota administration methods : economics and effects with trade liberalization / Harry de Gorter, Jana Hranaiova -- Domestic support : economics and policy instruments / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Laura Ignacio -- The distributional effects of agricultural policy reforms / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Cameron Short -- The multifunctionality of agriculture and its implications for policy / David Vanzetti, Els Wynen -- Food security and agricultural trade policy reform / Merlinda D. Ingco, Donald Mitchell, John D. Nash -- Managing potential adverse impacts of agricultural trade liberalization / William Foster, Alberto Valdés -- The sanitary and phytosanitary agreement, food safety policies, and product attributes / Simonetta Zarrilli with Irene Musselli -- Agricultural biotechnology : a primer for policymakers / Donald J. MacKenzie, Morven A. McLean -- Global intellectual property rights : a new factor in farming / Geoff Tansey -- Rules and options for special and differential treatment / Constantine Michalopoulos -- Special trade arrangements to improve market access / Helen Freeman
"A copublication with the World Bank and Oxford University Press."
Includes bibliographical references and index
What's at stake : developing-country interests in the DOHA development round / Merlinda D. Ingco, John D. Nash -- Trade agreements : achievements and issues ahead / Merlinda D. Ingco, John Croome -- Export competition policies / Harry de Gorter, Lilian Ruiz, Merlinda D. Ingco -- Market access : economics and the effects of policy instruments / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Laura Ignacio -- Quota administration methods : economics and effects with trade liberalization / Harry de Gorter, Jana Hranaiova -- Domestic support : economics and policy instruments / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Laura Ignacio -- The distributional effects of agricultural policy reforms / Harry de Gorter, Merlinda D. Ingco, Cameron Short -- The multifunctionality of agriculture and its implications for policy / David Vanzetti, Els Wynen -- Food security and agricultural trade policy reform / Merlinda D. Ingco, Donald Mitchell, John D. Nash -- Managing potential adverse impacts of agricultural trade liberalization / William Foster, Alberto Valdés -- The sanitary and phytosanitary agreement, food safety policies, and product attributes / Simonetta Zarrilli with Irene Musselli -- Agricultural biotechnology : a primer for policymakers / Donald J. MacKenzie, Morven A. McLean -- Global intellectual property rights : a new factor in farming / Geoff Tansey -- Rules and options for special and differential treatment / Constantine Michalopoulos -- Special trade arrangements to improve market access / Helen Freeman
Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade
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