Agricultural Liberalization in the Doha Round

Agriculture and Non-agricultural Liberalization in the Millennium Round

Much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture is distorted by more than agricultural policies. In developing countries especially, farming is discouraged not only by farm protection policies in high-income countries but also by those countries' own manufacturing policies and distortions to services markets. This paper explores th...

Issues on Agricultural Negotiations in the FTAA and Linkages With the Doha Round

Achieving Fairness in the Doha Development Round

The question addressed in this article is how the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO is to be assessed. Opinions about what constitutes fairness differ widely, and there is surely no incontrovertible yardstick. But it should be possible to be clearer about the criteria that are appropriate and what they mean in more operational terms. Why fairness is a condition o...

Agricultural Trade Reforms in the Doha Round: A Developing Country Perspective

This paper examines the reform outcome of the Uruguay Round relating to trade in agriculture, the nature of the unfinished reform agenda and policy choices for the Doha Round, with special emphasis on the position of developing in trade negotiations. A key policy inference is that, to be effective, agricultural trade liberalisation should involve simultaneous reforms of the trade regime and dom...

International Economics Policy Briefs August 2002 Number PB 02 - 8 Further Financial Services Liberalization in the Doha Round ?

Wendy Dobson (visiting fellow in 1990-91) is professor and director of the Institute for International Business at the University of Toronto. Between 1981 and 1987 she was president of the C.D. Howe Institute. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Dobson served as Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government. She is coauthor of World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10 (2001) with Gary C...