Agricultural trade reform under the Doha Agenda: some key issues

Agricultural trade reform under the Doha

© 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00404.x Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK AJAR ustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 1364-985X © 2008 The Authors Journ Compilat on © 2008 A str lian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Inc. and...

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...

Planning Under Uncertainty: Some Key Issues

A planner in the real world must be able to handle uncertainty. It must be able to reason about the eeect of uncertainty on its plans, select plans that avoid uncertain outcomes when possible, and make contingency plans against diierent possible outcomes when uncertainty cannot be avoided. We have constructed such a planner, Cassandra, which has these properties. Using Cassandra, we have produc...

Agricultural Biotechnology and Trade: The Unresolved Issues

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...