Agriculture and the new trade agenda : Creating a global trading environment for development

In the passionate and divisive debate about globalisation, there is growing consensus concerning the need to reduce the level of subsidies in agriculture and to open up the markets of the developed world more to the farmers of the developing world. However, whilst NGOs such as Oxfam may agree on thi...

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Published: Cambridge, UK,New York Cambridge University Press 2004
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
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Summary:In the passionate and divisive debate about globalisation, there is growing consensus concerning the need to reduce the level of subsidies in agriculture and to open up the markets of the developed world more to the farmers of the developing world. However, whilst NGOs such as Oxfam may agree on this point with free trade economists, governments in Europe and the US seem reluctant to give up their protectionist habits. This collection provides the definitive survey of the importance of agricultural reform to the future of the world's trading system