Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development

by Oxford University Press USA, Merlinda Ingco, John D. Nash

Overview

Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture.Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821383681
Publisher:	World Bank Publications
Publication date:	03/17/2004
Series:	Trade and Development
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	406
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

1.	What's at Stake? Developing-Country Interests in the Doha Development Round	1
2.	Trade Agreements: Achievements and Issues Ahead	23
3.	Export Competition Policies	43
4.	Market Access: Economics and the Effects of Policy Instruments	63
5.	Quota Administration Methods: Economics and Effects with Trade Liberalization	97
6.	Domestic Support: Economics and Policy Instruments	121
7.	The Distributional Effects of Agricultural Policy Reforms	151
8.	The "Multifunctionality" of Agriculture and its Implications for Policy	169
9.	Food Security and Agricultural Trade Policy Reform	181
10.	Managing Potential Adverse Impacts of Agricultural Trade Liberalization	195
11.	The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, Food Safety Policies, and Product Attributes	217
12.	Agricultural Biotechnology: A Primer for Policymakers	237
13.	Global Intellectual Property Rights: A New Factor in Farming	255
14.	Rules and Options for Special and Differential Treatment	271
15.	Special Trade Arrangements to Improve Market Access	293
	Appendix A	319
Appendix B	The Agreement on Agriculture	351
	Acronyms and Abbreviations	369