Search Results - "Doha Development Round"

The EU claims that the Doha Development Round is good for development by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

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The Commission reiterates its proposals for the way forward on cotton by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The EC communication on the reviving of the Doha Development Round put forward...…”
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On food security stocks, peace clauses, and permanent solutions after Bali by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

“…This paper focuses on the Ministerial Decision on “Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes, WT/MIN(13)/W/10,”4 and analyzes a series of legal and economic aspects involved, trying to place the discussion in the context of the significantly different economic scenario since the Doha Development Round started. This changed context includes the new scenario for food prices, the important advances of developing countries in incomes, the parallel im-provements in hunger indicators along with the continuous advance of the “triple burden” of malnutrition, significant increases in agricultural production and trade, and in policy support to the sector in developing countries, along with more diversified diets and new food retail channels, even among the poor and in rural regions.…”
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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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More or less ambition in the Doha Round? The development impact of recent proposal by Bouët, Antoine, Mevel, SImon, Orden, David

“…We analyse the impact on developing countries, whose economies depend heavily on agriculture, of a WTO Doha Development Round agreement based on greater or lesser levels of ambition. …”
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The potential cost of a failed Doha Round by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…This study concludes there would be a potential loss of US$1,064 billion in world trade if world leaders were to fail to conclude the Doha Development Round of trade negotiations in the next few weeks and if countries were to implement subsequently protectionist policies, as occurred after the end of the Uruguay Round. …”
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