Search Results - "World Trade Organization"

WTO disciplines on agricultural support: Experience to date and assessment of Doha proposals by Orden, David, Blandford, David, Josling, Timonthy, Brink, Lars

“…When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1995, its members committed themselves to a set of disciplines for domestic support, market access, and export competition for agriculture. …”
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Trade liberalization and regional integration: implications for 2020 by Robinson, Sherman, DeRosa, Dean A.

“…The United States approved the agreement in late 1994, in time for the 1995 commencement of the new World Trade Organization (WTO), which will implement the agreement and provide the major forum for future trade negotiations. …”
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An analysis of trade related international regulations of genetically modified food and their effects on developing countries by Gruère, Guillaume P.

“…At the international level, the harmonization efforts are led by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the World Trade Organization. While internationally harmonized guidelines for safety approval have been finalized, we show that there is no clear consensus on labeling regulations for GM food, and there is an increasing risk of conflicts among international agreements. …”
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Educational responses to local and migration destination shocks: Evidence from China by Leight, Jessica, Pan, Yao

“…Over the last 20 years, China has experienced substantial positive shocks to export-oriented industries—especially following its accession to the World Trade Organization—and these shocks have had major implications for human capital investment. …”
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China's past, present, and future food economy: can China continue to meet the challenges? by Rozelle, Scott, Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…This paper notes that, hampered by chronic fiscal problems and restrictions that will be imposed when it joins the World Trade Organization, China can meet its food supply goals by increasing reliance on international markets, establishing stable trading relationships with the rest of the world, and by exploiting its agricultural comparative advantage. …”
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Food insecurity: What can the world trading system do about it? by Wolff, Alan Wm., Glauber, Joseph W.

“…The authors recommend using the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) long-standing accords on agriculture as a basis to provide guidelines for supplying food to global markets, especially areas in need. …”
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SDG 2.1 and SDG 2.2: Why open, transparent, and equitable trade is essential to ending hunger and malnutrition sustainably by Fan, Shenggen, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Rue, Christopher

“…These pledges include the commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in December 2015, followed by the entry into force of the historic Paris Agreement on climate change in November 2016, and the incremental advances at the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the 9th and 10th ministerial conferences in Bali in 2013 and in Nairobi in 2015, all of which represented important steps towards building a more supportive international system for the attainment of those objectives. …”
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Shaping multilateral trade: The changing institutional landscape by Peralta, Gloria Abraham, Campos Azofeifa, Adriana

“…This chapter highlights the fact that many international trade stakeholders agree on the urgent need to strengthen the multilateral trade system and its governing body, the World Trade Organization (WTO). This will mean that the WTO will need to strengthen its intrinsic negotiating function, in particular its ability to achieve results in different processes in the trade agenda, and particularly in the negotiations on agriculture. …”
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Globalization and markets (GRP2): MTID program brochure by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Would developing countries and their poor populations benefit from further trade liberalization under the World Trade Organization (WTO)? How have the different strands of globalization affected poverty and food security in developing countries? …”
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That was then but this is now: multifunctionality in industry and agriculture by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Tin, Jonathan

“…Current agricultural negotiations in the World Trade Organization are grappling on how to fully integrate agriculture within the general rules for trade in goods. …”
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BRIC agricultural policies through a WTO Lens by Brink, Lars, Orden, David, Datz, Giselle

“…This chapter examines agricultural policies of the BRIC (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China) through the prism of the disciplines on domestic support under the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO).1 The effects of agricultural policies of the BRIC on production and trade have implications for their own domestic (and also global) food security as well as for world agricultural markets. …”
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Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries? by Bouët, Antoine, Metivier, Jeanne

“…Since the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, member countries have been heavily relying on the organization's dispute settlement procedure (DSP). …”
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Introduction: Creating context and unveiling crucial issues by Piñeiro, Martin, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was held in June 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, after a year-long delay due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions and other disruptions. …”
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Eight years of Doha trade talks: Where do we stand? by Bouët, Antoine, Laborde Debucquet, David

“…In 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a highly ambitious program of multilateral liberalization. …”
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WTO, agriculture, and developing countries: a survey of issues by Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Robinson, Sherman, Thomas, Marcelle, Yanoma, Yukitsugu

“…Developing countries are a large percentage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) membership, and agriculture is critical for their economic growth, poverty alleviation, food security, and environmental sustainability. …”
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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. …”
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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. Conversely, the 2014 farm bill makes achieving those limits more difficult. …”
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Modeling International Relationships in Applied General Equilibrium (MIRAGE) Model by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Beyond IFPRI and CEPII, the model is now shared with different institutions such as the European Commission DG Trade and DG Enterprise (Brussels, Belgium), French National Institute for Agricultural Research ( INRA, Paris, France), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), and the World Trade Organization (WTO, Geneva, Switzerland). The MIRAGE model has been developed primarily to study trade policy scenario and has been intensively used to assess bilateral and multilateral agreements. …”
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MC12: How to make the WTO relevant in the middle of a food price crisis by Glauber, Joseph W., Laborde Debucquet, David, Mamun, Abdullah, Olivetti, Elsa, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…The World Trade Organization’s 12th Ministerial Conference (WTO MC12) takes place June 12–15, 2022, in Geneva — two years after the pandemic forced members to postpone the meeting’s original schedule. …”
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Is the WTO dispute settlement procedure fair to developing countries? by Bouët, Antoine, Metivier, Jeanne, Parent, Marie

“…The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Procedure has been described as the “crown jewel” of the multilateral trading system, having been highly effective in settling a large number of disputes-without it, the results might have been much worse. …”
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