Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect poor farmers. The authors' findings reject this claim. The analysis uses detailed data on farm incomes to show that major commodity programs are highly regressive...
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详细
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2006/11/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS4060
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Distributional effects of WTO agricultural reforms in rich and poor countries
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farm household