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14-May-2008
Governments intervene in the agricultural sector through policies that both support and shape agricultural production. This leads to two important outcomes. First, agriculture specific programmes intended to increase the welfare of farmers can become capitalised into asset values. Second, many policies, in particular regulatory ones, reduce asset mobility, resulting in reduced economic efficiency due a sub-optimal allocation of resources.
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13-May-2008
The Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, has moved from a relatively simple to a more sophisticated market-reflective instrument, worth commemorating, especially in the light of its continuing relevance and dynamism
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28-Apr-2008
OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper 2007-02 Part I&II. This report documents the incidence, and impact of, non-tariff measures that are perceived to act as barriers to trade in seven sectors of environmental goods and associated services.
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23-Apr-2008
On 22 April, Stefan Tangermann, OECD Director for Trade and Agriculture, attended a meeting at No. 10 Downing Street hosted by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with leaders from other organisations to discuss an international strategy and response to increasing global food prices. Read the Press Statement from 10 Downing Street
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18-Apr-2008
Are current agricultural policies based on measurable objectives? Is the current policy set adequately addressing stated objectives? What could an improved agricultural policy set look like and how to get onto a reform trajectory?
These are some of the questions addressed in this publication. It draws on several projects that were undertaken in recent years under the auspices of the OECD and summarizes practical recommendations concerning the pathway to agricultural policy reform.
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15-Apr-2008
For a selected country you have direct access to the following documents:
- Contextual information,
- Inventory: WORD document with the description of all the measures included in the inventory,
- Tables: Information on payments and other information linked with the policies included in the inventory.
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04-Apr-2008
This report is an analysis of the Korean agricultural sector and Korean agricultural policy. It evaluates policy reforms that have occurred since 1998 and makes recommendations for the future. In addition to reporting a wide variety of statistics with respect to Korean agriculture, it describes and makes use of two of the main OECD tools for agricultural policy analysis, the PSE and CSE database and the Policy Evaluation Model (PEM).
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17-Mar-2008
This Review measures the level and composition of support provided to Chilean agriculture, evaluates the effectiveness of current measures in attaining their objectives, and suggests ways in which the performance of policies might be enhanced.
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08-Feb-2008
Click on the above link for all recently released OECD Trade Policy Working Papers as well as those from previous years.
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05-Feb-2008
Recent and detailed information from OECD Member countries on financial support in domestic fisheries.
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