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Agricultural Policy and Trade Reform: Potential Effects at Global, National and Household Levels

14-Jun-2006

A just released report shows that a simultaneous reform involving a halving of trade protection and domestic support across all sectors could potentially generate USD 44 billion in welfare gains globally. Most of these gains arise from agricultural reform and most of these agricultural gains come from reform of market access measures.

137th Session of the Trade Committee, 21-22 October 2003

30-May-2006

read the summary of the latest meeting of the Trade Committee...

Liberalising network infrastructure services and the GATS

24-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 34.  This study reviews key issues in liberalising network infrastructure services — including telecommunications, postal/courier, energy, water and sewage — in the national and multilateral contexts.

Special and differential treatment in the area of trade facilitation

24-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 32.  The objective of this study is to offer reflections on how special and differential treatment for trade facilitation may be shaped by the cost implications of measures included in the future agreement.

The Australian preferential tariff regime

17-May-2006

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 33.  The purpose of this paper is to consider the preferential trade arrangements available to developing countries exporting into the Australian market. The paper opens with an overview of these arrangements, followed by a detailed statistical review.

The Challenge of Decoupling Agricultural Support

11-May-2006

Decoupling agricultural support means reforming agricultural policies so that they reduce their interference with production decisions.

Building capacity to monitor water quality: A first step to cleaner water in developing countries

10-May-2006

OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper No. 2006-03. This report explores four cases in China, India, Malaysia, and Chinese Taipei, where water-quality monitoring and protection capacity has been improved through the use of imported water-quality monitoring equipment combined with indigenous implementation.

Trade, agriculture and development: policies working together

25-Apr-2006

Why is policy coherence for development important to policy makers, producers and the rural poor? How does it affect global agricultural trade? Can greater policy coherence help reduce poverty reduction and alleviate hunger?

OECD review of agricultural policies - South Africa

20-Apr-2006

Agricultural reform has made a major contribution to the social and economic changes in South Africa over the past decade. But what are the challenges facing the government as it attempts to broaden participation of black farmers in commercial agriculture and boost the sector’s competitiveness ?

Liberalisation of trade in renewable energy and associated technologies: Biodiesel, solar thermal and geothermal energy

06-Apr-2006

OECD Trade and Environment Working Paper No. 2006-01. This paper, the second in a series, examines the implications of liberalising trade in three forms of renewable energy: biodiesel, solar-thermal water heaters, and geothermal energy systems.




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