MACMILLAN AGRICULTURAL TRADE REFORM (World Bank Trade and Development Series)

Agricultural trade reform is critical to a favourable development outcome from the Doha Development agenda. But agricultural policies and the policy reforms being contemplated are fiendishly complicated, and the devil is in the details. This study builds up from the essential detail of the tariffs and other protection measures, and uses this information to provide an analysis of the big-picture implications of proposed reforms. The study highlights the risk that the potentially large gains will be lost through excessive flexibilities and exceptions. Review "This book contains the most complete and up-to-date analysis of the range of agricultural issues in the multilateral trade negotiations underway in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and should prove enormously useful to policy makers, businessmen, and academics in developing and assessing the negotiating options." -- Jeffrey J. Schott About the Author JOHN C. BEGHIN Professor of Economics and Head, Trade and Agricultural Policy Division, Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), USA ANTOINE BOUET Economist, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), France EUGENIO DIAZ-BONILLA Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti, Inter-American Development Bank, USA LIONEL FONTAGNE Director, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), France HARRY DE GORTER Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, USA CHAD E. HART Research Scientist, Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), USA THOMAS W. HERTEL Distinguished Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, USA BERNARD HOEKMAN Senior Advisor, Development Research Group, World Bank, USA SEBASTIEN JEAN Economist, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), France HANS G. JENSEN Research Fellow, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark TIM JOSLING Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for International Studies, USA ROMAN KEENEY Graduate Research Assistant and PhD student, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, USA ERIKA KLIAUGA Graduate Research Assistant and PhD student, Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, USA DAVID LABORDE Economist, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII), France PATRICK MESSERLIN Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France DAVID ORDEN Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA DANIEL A. SUMNER Frank H. Buck Jr. Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, USA DOMINIQUE VAN DER MENSBRUGGHE Senior Economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank, USA HENRIK ZOBBE Associate Professor, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark"