Europe on the Road to Doha: Towards a New Global Trade Round?

OECD Global Forum on Trade GLOBAL FORUM ON TRADE THE MARKET ACCESS CHALLENGE IN THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Background Texts

Projected Benefits of the doha round hinge on Misleading trade Models

Lance Taylor is the Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. Rudiger von Arnim is a Research Assistant. This SCEPA Policy Note is based on their 2006 paper for Oxfam International titled, “Modeling the Impact of Trade Liberalization: A Critique of Computable ...

The Shrinking Gains from Trade: A Critical Assessment of Doha Round Projections

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models of world trade, often presented as demonstrating the benefits of trade liberalization, now make much more modest forecasts than they did just a few years ago. The estimated benefits are not only small in the aggregate, but also skewed toward developed countries; the expected contribution of trade liberalization to economic development and poverty alle...

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...

Implications of the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round for the Rice Sector

The objective of this study is to measure the effect of global policy reforms on rice trade, prices, and economic welfare. The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations aims to increase market access, and reduce or eliminate export subsidies and trade distorting domestic price supports. Two modeling frameworks are used to estimate trade, price and economic welfare effects of policy reforms....