Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda

Agricultural trade reform under the Doha

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The Wto, the Post-doha Agenda and the Future of the Trade System : a Development Perspective

The World Trade Organisation has emerged as an important agency, whose rules and operations have major effects on the development policies of its developing country Members. This paper reviews some of the recent developments and issues arising from the WTO's work and activities. The paper takes what the author considers is a development perspective" of the trading system. The WTO held a Ministe...

The Doha Development Agenda: Welfare Gains from Further Multilateral Trade Liberalisation with Respect to Tariffs

The agriculture directorate is using a modified version of the GTAP model to analyse the impact of agriculture and non-agriculture reform. This analysis is part of an overall project that analyses policy reform using a "top-down" approach that integrating a variety of modeling techniques. Global and regional analysis is carried out using general equilibrium (modified GTAP), while at the other e...

OECD Global Forum on Trade GLOBAL FORUM ON TRADE THE MARKET ACCESS CHALLENGE IN THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Background Texts

Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

The paper looks at the OECD domestic political economy associated to ongoing WTO farm negotiations, focusing on the OECD-based coalitions which could be helpful for WTO negotiators. Support from individual final consumers and taxpayers is far from being guaranteed–because consumers are spending less and less on food, and because taxpayers support, more or less willingly, non-trade concerns, suc...