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Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series, 19
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Although the current round of international trade negotiations was
called a a ~Development Rounda (TM), very little was accomplished
before the negotiations stalled in mid-2006. Developing countries
as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in
agricultural commodities. It is less clear how the 50 countries
identified by the United Nations as the a ~Least Developed
Countriesa (TM) (LDCs), which have been subject to special
consideration in international trade negotiations, would fare.
Would they lose their preferential trade access to the OECD markets
and, if so, would these losses exceed the potential gains from
liberalized trade? Or would low-income countries that currently
receive high prices for commodities such as sugar in some
OECD-country markets be out-competed by countries such as Brazil in
a liberalized market? More generally, would any benefits from
liberalized agricultural trade be captured by middle-income
countries with good domestic infrastructure and well-functioning
markets, leaving few or no economic benefits to the LDCs? How
should the LDCs prepare for multilateral reform of agricultural
trade, and should they take policy action now in response to the
continuation of the trade-distorting agricultural policies pursued
by the OECD countries? To what extent do the LDCs and the
middle-income developing countries have common interests with
respect to the desired outcomes of the trade round? Are the LDCs
well represented by the Group of 21, which consists primarily of
middle-income countries with strong export potential in
agriculture, or should they pursue a different set of goals in
future negotiations? In this book, several experts on
internationaltrade and development address these and related
questions.
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