Part I. Setting the scene. Agriculture, trade reform, and the Doha agenda / Kym Anderson and Will Martin ; What is at stake: the relative importance of import barriers, export subsidies, and domestic support / Thomas W. Hertel and Roman Keeney ; Special and differential treatment for developing countries / Tim Josling -- Part II. Agricultural market access. Consequences of alternative formulas for agricultural tariff cuts / Sébastien Jean, David Laborde, and Will Martin ; reducing tariffs versus expanding tariff rate quotas / Harry de Gorter and Erika Kliauga ; Is erosion of tariff preferences a serious concern? / Antoine Bouët, Lionel Fontagné, and Sébastien Jean -- Part III. Export subsidies and domestic support. Removing the exception of agricultural export subsidies / Bernard Hoekman and Patrick Messerlin ; rethinking agricultural domestic support under the World Trade Organization / Chad E. Hart and John C. Beghin ; Consequences of reducing limits on aggregate measurements of support / Hans G. Jensen and Henrik Zobbe ; Reducing cotton subsidies: the DDA cotton initiative / Daniel A. Sumner -- Part IV. Doha reform scenarios. Holograms and ghosts: new and old ideas for agricultural policies / David Orden and Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla ; Market and welfare implications of Doha reform scenarios / Kym Anderson, Will Martin, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe.
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"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization's Doha round. The results suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (and in Cairns Group countries) proportionately more than in other developing countries or high-income countries. Real returns to farm land and unskilled labor and real net farm incomes would rise substantially in those developing country regions, thereby alleviating poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more agricultural subsidies are disciplined and applied tariffs are cut."
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Agricultural trade reform and the Doha development agenda.
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Agricultural trade reform & the Doha development agenda