Search Results - "Doha"

Liberalizing agricultural trade and developing countries by Orden, David, Kaukab, Rashid S., Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…According to the consensus reached among participants attending a conference cosponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Cordell Hull Institute, WTO Doha Round negotiations on agriculture should compel policy changes in industrialized countries to limit trade-distorting domestic subsidies for agricultural products, lower tariffs, increase market access, and eliminate export subsidies.In response to temporary hardships caused by an overall reduction in agricultural support, governments should have the flexibility to adopt temporary or limited domestic, and perhaps international, compensatory policies. …”
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A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes by Laborde Debucquet, David, Estrades, Carmen, Bouët, Antoine

“…The removal of these taxes would increase global welfare by 0.23 percent, which is a larger figure than the expected gains from the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round.…”
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Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India by Panda, Manoj, Ganesh-Kumar, Anand

“…Evidence from simulations of (partial) trade reforms reflecting a possible Doha-like scenario show that the bottom 30 percent of the population in both rural and urban areas would suffer a decline in calorie and protein intake, in contrast to the rest of the population, even as all households increase their intake of fats. …”
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New pathways for progress in multilateral trade negotiations in agriculture by Cahill, Carmel, Tangermann, Stefan, Brink, Lars, Fan, Shenggen, Glauber, Joseph W., Gonzalez, Anàbel

“…These negotiations were then made an element of the new round of multilateral trade negotiations launched in 2001 and known as the Doha Development Agenda (DDA).…”
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The political economy of the 2014 farm bill by Orden, David, Zulauf, Carl

“…In an international context, we conclude the 2014 farm safety net likely would not have been enacted had multilateral agreement been reached on the 2008 Doha Round negotiating documents; conversely, the 2014 farm bill makes achieving those limits more difficult. …”
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Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000-2015 by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments. …”
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A global assessment of the economic effects of export taxes by Laborde Debucquet, David, Estrades, Carmen, Bouët, Antoine

“…The removal of these taxes would increase global welfare by 0.23 per cent, a larger figure than expected gains from the Doha Round. Both developed and emerging economies, such as China and India, would gain from such policies even if they currently impose export taxes. …”
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WTO 11th Ministerial Conference – Buenos Aires: What’s at stake for domestic support in the context of agricultural negotiations by Illescas, Nelson, Jorge, Nicolás, Perini, Sofía C.

“…With the stagnation of the Doha Round, the WTO has started a process known as “early harvest”. …”
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WTO negotiations on agriculture and developing countries by Hoda, Anwarul, Gulati, Ashok

“…In this study, our aim is to develop the strategy that would be in the best interest of developing countries to adopt in the multilateral trade negotiations on agriculture in the Doha Round. Before reaching our conclusions we delve deeply into the evolution of rules and disciplines on agricultural trade policies in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) after its establishment in 1947 and analyze the complex provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. …”
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Implications for Brazil of the July 2008 draft agricultural modalities by Nassar, André Meloni, Cabral da Costa, Cinthia, Chiodi, Luciane

“…Two topics now appear as “deal-breakers” for Brazil: the creation of new tariff rate quotas that will not be effective in creating new market access opportunities and an SSM that will lead to an increase in the level of protection consolidated before the Doha Round…”
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Norway: Shadow WTO agricultural domestic support notifications by Gaasland, Ivar, Garcia, Robert, Vårdal, Erling

“…We analyze the implications of the proposed modalities for reduction commitments on agriculture under the Doha round of WTO negotiations in the Norwegian context. …”
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Agricultural trade liberalization and poverty in Brazil by Filho, Joachim Bento de Souza Ferreira

“…The scenario is generated from a previous run of the MIRAGE model, which assesses the likely impacts of a Doha Development Agenda agreement, based on the draft on agriculture by Crawford Falconer and the draft on nonagricultural market access by Don Stephenson. …”
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Un choix historique pour la France by Bouët, Antoine

“…Les négociations commerciales du Doha Round sont particulièrement difficiles, et la très grande majorité des négociateurs et des commentateurs incriminent l'Union européenne, et tout particulièrement la France d'être à l'origine de cet échec programmé. …”
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Public stockholding programs and the WTO by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…PSH was largely uncontroversial during the Doha negotiations, where issues like the Special Safeguard Mechanism, domestic support, and cotton contributed to the collapse of negotiations in 2008 (Blustein 2009; Jones 2010; Margulis 2023). …”
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Are Plurilaterals a promising trade liberalization modality? by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…After 50 years of success, multilateral trade liberalization, conducted under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is in a deadlock, as illustrated by the impasse in which the Doha Round is for almost 20 years. Many explanations have been advanced. …”
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Political economy of the 2014 farm bill by Orden, David, Zulauf, Carl

“…In an international context, we conclude that the 2014 farm safety net likely would not have been enacted had multilateral agreement been reached on the 2008 Doha Round World Trade Organization negotiating documents. …”
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Implications for the European Union of the May 2008 draft agricultural modalities by Jean, Sébastien, Josling, Timothy Edward, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…To what extent would a successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), along the lines of the modalities in the Revised Draft Modalities paper of May 19, 2008, require further changes in the Common Agricultural Policy? …”
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On boxes, contents, and users: food security and the WTO negotiations by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Robinson, Sherman, Thomas, Marcelle

“…They were also reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration, which declares that "the long-term objective" is "to establish a fair and market-oriented trading system through a program of fundamental reform", and confirmed that special and differential treatment will be granted to developing countries "to effectively take account of their development needs, including food security and rural development". …”
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Negotiating agricultural trade in a new policy environment by Glauber, Joseph W.

“…However, progress since the Uruguay Round has been limited. While the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) was launched with much anticipation in 2001, members failed to reach agreement in July 2008 and the trade agenda in Geneva has since advanced slowly. …”
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Food policy liberalization in Bangladesh: how the government and the markets delivered by Chowdhury, Nuimuddin, Farid, Nasir, Roy, Devesh

“…In order to account for the expected global changes under the Doha round, simulations using competitive spatial-equilibrium models for the world’s rice and wheat markets forecast increase in prices for rice and wheat by 21.7% and 10.1% respectively by 2013. …”
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