- EventA key pillar of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture limits trade-distorting agricultural domestic support. Commitments for certain countries are tightened and extended under proposed rules in the stalled Doha Round negotiations. The Doha constraints ...
- Project Papers and NotesThe revised draft modalities text issued by the Chair of the WTO agricultural negotiating group on February 8, 2008, reflects the considerable incremental progress which has been made in elaborating, clarifying and putting into legal language the ...
- Staff ProfileAntoine Bouet joined IFPRI in February 2005 as Senior Research Fellow and co-leader of the Globalization and Markets Program in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division (MTID) to conduct research on global trade modeling, trade policies, ...
- Staff ProfileBetina Dimaranan joined the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at IFPRI as a Research Fellow in July 2007. She is a member of the Globalization and Markets team and currently conducts research on global trade modeling, multilateral and ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper is devoted to better understanding of the Brazilian agricultural national policies towards domestic support and implications related to WTO rules. Domestic support has taken central stage in the last years and in light of a global ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper reviews recent agricultural policy changes in China and presents estimates of domestic support for the period 1996-2005. A set of relevant alternative subsidy-definition scenarios and their effects on the calculated levels of support ...
- Staff ProfileDr. David Laborde Debucquet joined IFPRI, Washington DC, in 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow and leader of the “Globalization and Markets” research program in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. More about Dr David Laborde ...
- Staff ProfileDavid Orden joined IFPRI in August 2003 as senior research fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division to conduct research on agricultural policy and international trade, including the impacts of industrialized country agricultural ...
- NewsWhat does the Doha Development Round bring to the table for developing countries? The WTO Forum invited two international experts- Jeffrey Schott from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and David Laborde from IFPRI- to discuss ...
- Discussion PapersIn 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a highly ambitious program of multilateral liberalization. Eight years later, concluding the negotiations is uncertain, though an opportunity still exists. Since 2001, many proposals on market access ...
- IFPRI Briefs"We commit ourselves to comprehensive negotiations aimed at: substantial improvements in market access; reductions of, with a view to phasing out, all forms of export subsidies; and substantial reductions in trade-distorting domestic support. We ...
- Discussion PapersThe notification of the level of domestic support to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is intended to reflect compliance with obligations entered into at the time of the Uruguay Round. WTO members have often been slow to provide notification of ...
- NewsRecent analysis from IFPRI concludes that the expected gains from the December 2008 Doha proposal – while limited – are positive, and that concluding the Round in 2010 is important to secure trade and growth during the incoming global recovery ...
- Project Papers and NotesThis paper discussed the market access and domestic support pillars in the Doha Round negotiations. It analysed both the implications for Brazil of reducing its own tariffs and reforming domestic support for agriculture; and the likely benefits ...
- Project Papers and NotesIn this study, we examine the implications of the May 2008 WTO draft agricultural modalities for India’s market access and domestic support policies. In the case of market access, most of India’s agricultural tariffs are of the ad ...
- Project Papers and NotesTo what extent would a successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), along the lines of the modalities in the Revised Draft Modalities paper of May 19, 2008, require further changes in the Common Agricultural Policy? Will those ...
- Project Papers and NotesThe May 2008 draft agricultural modalities (WTO 2008) are the result of seven years of hard negotiations. Their structure, if not every detail, seems likely to be the basis for final proposals that must either be ratified or rejected by ...
- EventAbstract One of the fundamental achievements of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations that established the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994 was to create the first multilateral framework for disciplines on domestic farm ...
- Discussion PapersIn this study, we examined India’s domestic support policies to understand their classification and measurement for the purposes of official World Trade Organization (WTO) notifications. We then employed the underlying methods to prepare ...
- Discussion PapersThe purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of Japan’s agricultural domestic policy since 1995 in the context of the current international negotiations in the WTO Doha Round, which has as one aim further reductions of ...
- DivisionInadequate policies, institutions, and rural infrastructure lead to agricultural markets that do not function efficiently. As a consequence, the poor pay more for their food and receive less for their produce. To enhance the efficiency of ...
- Discussion PapersAs a result of the Uruguay round, Norway was committed to reducing its domestic support for agriculture, in particular its aggregate measurement of support (AMS), which was to be reduced by 20 percent. We show that Norway has complied with its ...
- IFPRI BriefsThe benefits least-developed countries (LDCs) can draw from a multilateral trade reform as designed by the modalities made public in May 2008 are negligible, and some countries will even face adverse effects. World Trade Organization (WTO) ...
- Newsby Valdete Berisha-Krasniqi, Antoine Bouët, David Laborde, and Simon Mevel The benefits least developed countries (LDCs) can draw from a multilateral trade reform as designed by the modalities made public in May 2008 are negligible, and ...
- Discussion PapersThe objective of this paper is to review the agricultural trade and domestic policies of the Philippines and to provide an assessment of the types and levels of domestic support relative to the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Changes ...
- Discussion PapersThis study offers new conclusions on the economic cost of a failed Doha Round. The first section is devoted to an analysis of how trade policies evolve in the long and medium runs. We show that even under normal economic conditions, policymakers ...
- IFPRI BriefsIn times of economic turmoil, countries might decide to increase current tariff rates to protect domestic industries or raise revenues in order to finance domestic programs. Using the highest applied or bound rate imposed by countries from 1995 ...
- EventOrganized by: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract Formulating new rules for agricultural domestic support to reduce international market distortions remains one of the critical challenges facing the multilateral ...
- Discussion PapersThis paper examines past and proposed U.S. domestic support in light of current and potential World Trade Organization (WTO) constraints. It provides a brief review of U.S. farm policies since the Uruguay Round WTO agreements went into effect, ...
- Staff ProfileValdete Berisha-Krasniqi joined IFPRI in July of 2005. She has conducted research on various international trade issues including multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Round, preferential market access for developing countries, economic ...
- Discussion PapersWe herein use a world Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate 143 potential trade reforms and seek solutions to the issues hampering progress in the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Inside the domain defined by all these possible ...
- NewsPascal Lamy, Director General of WTO, foresees that "the cost to the world economy of high intensity protectionism would be in the order of $ 800 billion, the estimated value of space or "water" in WTO commitments today," which would be very bad ...
- IFPRI BriefsWhen 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. The Agreement on Agriculture laid the way for the ...
- Books and MonographsWhen 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. The Agreement on Agriculture laid the way for the ...
- EventAbstract International disciplines on agricultural domestic support have been in place since 1995 and negotiations over possible new commitments have been central to the unresolved WTO Doha Round. The influence of the existing disciplines and ...
- IFPRI BriefsFor more than six years the trade talks of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been stalled, mainly on account of differences in countries’ levels of ambition for reducing support to and protection of agriculture. The expiration of the ...
- Books and MonographsThe World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching ...
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