Agriculture and the new trade agenda : creating a global trading environment for development / edited by Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingco, Merlinda D., editor.

Winters, L. Alan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

Produce trade--Government policy--International cooperation.

Produce trade.

Tariff on farm produce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 510 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Agriculture & the New Trade Agenda

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Negotiating the liberalization of world agricultural trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is fraught with difficulty due to the complexity of the issues and the wide range of interests across countries. In the round of global trade negotiations under the WTO, different perspectives on trade reform have produced a highly contentious agenda. These issues are addressed from a range of perspectives in this survey of the trade agenda and its implications for both developing and developed countries. Agricultural trade specialists, including those in universities, in international organizations and think tanks, analyse a comprehensive range of topics including interests and options in the WTO trade negotiations, the trade agenda from a development patent perspective, WTO trade rules, trade barriers, tariff negotiations and patent protection for developing countries.

Contents:

Agriculture and the trade negotiations : synopsis / Merlinda D. Ingco and L. Alan Winters

The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture in practice : how open are the OECD markets? / Dimitris Diakosavvas

How developing countries are implementing tariff-rate quotas / Philip Abbott and B. Adair Morse

A review of the operation of the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures / Gretchen Stanton

Agriculture, developing countries, and the Doha Development Agenda / Kym Anderson

Where the interests of developing countries converge and diverge / Alberto Valdés and Alexander F. McCalla

Market access, export subsidies, and domestic support : developing new rules / Harry de Gorter

Options for enhancing market access in a new round / Tim Josling and Allan Rae

Liberalizing tariff-rate quotas : quantifying the effects of enhancing market access / Aziz Elbehri [and others]

The global and regional effects of liberalizing agriculture and other trade in the new round / Thomas W. Hertel [and others]

Modeling the effects on agriculture of protection in developing countries / Dean A. De Rosa

Liberalizing sugar : the taste test of the WTO / Brent Borrell and David Pearce

Bananas : a policy overripe for change / Brent Borrell

Sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to agricultural trade : progress, prospects, and implications for developing countries / Donna Roberts, David Orden and Timothy Josling

How developing countries view the impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on agricultural exports / Spencer Henson [and others]

State trading in agricultural trade : options and prospects for new rules / W.M. Miner

Environmental considerations in agricultural negotiations in the new WTO round / John Whalley

Intellectual property rights and agriculture / Jayashree Watal

Genetically modified foods, trade and developing countries / Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Karen Thierfelder and Sherman Robinson

Multifunctionality and the optimal environmental policies for agriculture in an open economy / Jeffrey M. Peterson, Richard N. Boisvert and Harry de Gorter.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-14707-7

1-139-80997-0

1-107-31625-1

1-107-32164-6

1-107-31721-5

1-107-31807-6

1-299-39936-3

1-107-31527-1

0-511-55067-7