Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
Agriculture is yet again causing contention in international trade negotiations. It caused long delays to the Uruguay round in the late 1980s and 1990s, and it is again proving to be the major stumbling block in the World Trade Organization's...
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Washington, DC: World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/10587443/agricultural-trade-reform-doha-development-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6889 |
| Summary: | Agriculture is yet again causing
contention in international trade negotiations. It caused
long delays to the Uruguay round in the late 1980s and
1990s, and it is again proving to be the major stumbling
block in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha
round of multilateral trade negotiations (formally known as
the Doha Development Agenda, or DDA). This study builds on
numerous recent analyses of the Doha Development Agenda and
agricultural trade, including five very helpful books that
appeared in 2004. One, edited by Aksoy and Beghin (2004),
provides details of trends in global agricultural markets
and policies, especially as they affect nine commodities of
interest to developing countries. Another, edited by Ingco
and Winters (2004), includes a wide range of analyses based
on papers revised following a conference held just before
the aborted WTO trade ministerial meeting in Seattle in
1999. The third, edited by Ingco and Nash (2004), provides a
follow-up to the broad global perspective of the Ingco and
winters volume: it explores a wide range of key issues and
options in agricultural trade reform from a
developing-country perspective. The fourth, edited by
Anania, Bowman, Carter, and McCalla (2004), is a
comprehensive, tenth-anniversary retrospective on the
Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and numerous
unilateral trade and subsidy reforms in developed,
transition, and developing economies. And the fifth, edited
by Jank (2004), focuses on implications for Latin America. |
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