Reforming Agricultural Trade For Developing Countries

Author : Alex F. McCalla,John D. Nash
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082136717X

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Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries by Alex F. McCalla,John D. Nash Pdf

In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries translate into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing countries really get out of it. This two volume set seeks to answer these questions. This volume (Volume 2) addresses the question of how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect developing countries by quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform. It presents several different approaches to modeling the effects of the outcome of negotiations, and then investigates why these (and other) modeling efforts produce such divergent results. Volume 1 is issues-oriented. It takes up some key questions in the negotiations, setting the stage with a historical overview of the Doha Development Agenda to help identify issues of most significance to developing countries, and then explores select issues in greater depth. Aimed at policymakers and stakeholders, this two-volume effort puts into the public domain important analytical work that will improve the chance for a pro-development outcomes of the Doha round negotiations.

Author : John Nash,Alex F. McCalla
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821364979

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Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries by John Nash,Alex F. McCalla Pdf

In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries translate into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing countries really get out of it. This two volume set seeks to answer these questions. This volume (Volume 1) is issues-oriented. It takes up some key questions in the negotiations, setting the stage with a historical overview of the Doha Development Agenda to help identify issues of most significance to developing countries, and then explores select issues in greater depth. Volume 2 addresses the question of how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect developing countries by quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform. It presents several different approaches to modeling the effects of the outcome of negotiations, and then investigates why these (and other) modeling efforts produce such divergent results. Aimed at policymakers and stakeholders, this two-volume effort puts into the public domain important analytical work that will improve the chance for a pro-development outcomes of the Doha round negotiations.

Author : Alex F. McCalla,John D. Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874573370

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Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries by Alex F. McCalla,John D. Nash Pdf

Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781925261356

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Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform: by Kym Anderson Pdf

This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions – and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways that would boost well-being in developing countries, especially for those food-insecure households still suffering from poverty and hunger.

Author : Niek Koning,Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402060858

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Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries by Niek Koning,Per Pinstrup-Andersen Pdf

Developing countries as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in agricultural commodities. Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries is the first book to address important questions relating to this subject. The authors are world renowned experts on international trade and development and they address a very important and timely issue.

Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agricultural Trade Reform and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries by Kym Anderson Pdf

the group to understand the poverty implication of trade policy reforms."

Author : Roman Keeney,L. Alan Winters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agricultural Liberalization
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries by Roman Keeney,L. Alan Winters Pdf

Abstract: Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect poor farmers. The authors' findings reject this claim. The analysis uses detailed data on farm incomes to show that major commodity programs are highly regressive in the United States, and that the only serious losses under trade reform are among large, wealthy farmers in a few heavily protected subsectors. In contrast, analysis using household data from 15 developing countries indicates that reforming rich countries' agricultural trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural reforms that appear feasible, even under an ambitious Doha Round, achieve only a fraction of the benefits for developing countries that full liberalization promises, but protect U.S. large farms from most of the rigors of adjustment. Finally, the analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in agricultural trade liberalization.

Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137469250

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Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security by Kym Anderson Pdf

This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international food prices. Beginning with an examination of historical trends in markets and policies, Anderson assesses the prospects for further reforms, and projects how they may develop over the next fifteen years. He pays particular attention to domestic policy changes made possible by the information technology revolution, which will complement global change to deal directly with farmer and consumer concerns.

Author : M. Ataman Aksoy,John C. Beghin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821383490

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Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries by M. Ataman Aksoy,John C. Beghin Pdf

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries presents research findings based on a series of commodity studies of significant economic importance to developing countries. The book sets the stage with background chapters and investigations of cross-cutting issues. It then describes trade and domestic policy regimes affecting agricultural and food markets, and assesses the resulting patterns of production and trade. The book continues with an analysis of product standards and costs of compliance and their effects on agricultural and food trade. The book also investigates the impact of preferences given to selected countries and their effectiveness, then reviews the evidence on the attempts to decouple agricultural support from agricultural output. The last background chapter explores the robustness of the global gains of multilateral agricultural and food trade liberalization. Given this context, the book presents detailed commodity studies for coffee, cotton, dairy, fruits and vegetables, groundnuts, rice, seafood products, sugar, and wheat. These markets feature distorted policy regimes among industrial or middle-income countries. The studies analyze current policy regimes in key producing and consuming countries, document the magnitude of these distortions and estimate the distributional impacts - winners and losers - of trade and domestic policy reforms. By bringing the key issues and findings together in one place, Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries aids policy makers and researchers, both in their approach to global negotiations and in evaluating their domestic policies on agriculture. The book also complements the recently published Agriculture and the WTO, which focuses primarily on the agricultural issues within the context of the WTO negotiations.

Author : Ivan Roberts,Benjamin L. Buetre,Frank Jotzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0642764611

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Agricultural Trade Reform in the WTO by Ivan Roberts,Benjamin L. Buetre,Frank Jotzo Pdf

Author : Institute for International Economics (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural industries
ISBN : UCAL:B4396473

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Reforming World Agricultural Trade by Institute for International Economics (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251055335

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Trade Reforms and Food Security by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The links between trade-related policy reforms and food security is of key concern to many developing countries. This publication sets out the findings of 15 country case studies from Cameroon, Chile, China, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. The coverage includes countries at different stages of development with the main focus on low-income countries that are likely to be at greater risk of food insecurity. The studies examine the impact of trade-related policy reforms on agricultural prices, production and trade, and the consequences for food security issues for each country.

Author : Merlinda D. Ingco,L. Alan Winters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821349864

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Agricultural Trade Liberalization in a New Trade Round by Merlinda D. Ingco,L. Alan Winters Pdf

Annotation This collection highlights the main trade issues of importance to different regions of the world.

Author : Giovanni Anania
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114189744

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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO by Giovanni Anania Pdf

Contiene: Preface Agricultural Policy Reform: Past Present and Future. - Part I: Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Changes Ten Years After the Uruguay Round. - Part II: The Three Pillars of the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture. - Part III: Agricultural Trade Relations, WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Developing World. - Part IV: The WTO and the Future of International Trade Relations.

Author : Timothy Edward Josling,Tim Josling
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0881322563

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Agricultural Trade Policy by Timothy Edward Josling,Tim Josling Pdf

The Uruguay Round trade negotiations marked a historic turning point in the reform of agricultural trade. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) replaced nontariff barriers with bound tariffs, curbed export subsidies, and codified domestic agricultural programs. Unfortunately, the URAA bound many of the tariffs that replaced nontariff barriers too high, it legitimized export subsidies, and it left the domestic farm policies of the major industrial countries largely untouched. Fortunately, regional trade institutions have also begun to grapple with agricultural trade liberalization. Agriculture was featured in the Mercosur agreement, in recent agreements between the European Union and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and in the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA). Plans for broad supraregional trade structures, such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), have also dealt with the inclusion of agricultural trade. Meanwhile, in developing and middle-income countries, unilateral agricultural policy reforms have been part of recent economic policy changes. However, in the industrial countries, agricultural policy reform has languished in the face of much domestic opposition. But the reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 1992 and the 1996 Farm Bill in the United States seems to have ushered in a new era of relations between government and agricultural groups. The author points out ways that multilateral, regional, and unilateral paths could be coordinated to liberalized agricultural trade. He proposes a set of multilateral talks that would benefit from agricultural reform at all levels and complete the job begun at the Uruguay Round.