Liberalizing Trade in Agriculture: Developing Countries in Asia and the Post-Doha Agenda
The author provides an overview and data relevant to the interests of developing countries as they engage in continuing agricultural trade negotiations set forth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He e...
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/03/1738611/liberalizing-trade-agriculture-developing-countries-asia-post-doha-agenda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14324 |
| Summary: | The author provides an overview and data
relevant to the interests of developing countries as they
engage in continuing agricultural trade negotiations set
forth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held in
Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He examines country
performance in agricultural trade, income levels, and
population characteristics, with a focus on developing
country members of the Asian Development Bank. The author
concludes that trends in agricultural trade in the past 10
years are quite heterogeneous across developing regions.
Shares of agriculture in GDP are still high in the East Asia
and Pacific and South Asia regions. Moreover, data indicate
that trade reform in export partners, particularly OECD
countries, will affect a significant share of the population
in these developing countries, resulting in rural poverty
alleviation. Trade liberalization is expected to benefit net
exporter countries, particularly those that are highly open
to trade. What is also important, but often neglected, is a
country's pattern of specialization between domestic
supply and exports. The impact of trade reform through the
WTO negotiations, particularly reforms undertaken in
exporting partners can therefore have important implications
in the post-Doha development agenda. |
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