Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO Green Box (eBook, ePUB)

Ensuring Coherence with Sustainable Development Goals
Redaktion: Melendez-Ortiz, Ricardo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Do the World Trade Organization's rules on 'green box' farm subsidies allow both rich and poor countries to achieve important goals such as food security, or do they worsen poverty, distort trade and harm the environment? Current WTO requirements set no ceiling on the amount of green box subsidies that governments can provide, on the basis that these payments cause only minimal trade distortion. Governments are thus increasingly shifting their subsidy spending into this category, as they come under pressure to reduce subsidies that are more directly linked to production. However, growing evidence nonetheless suggests that green box payments can affect production and trade, harm farmers in developing countries and cause environmental damage. By bringing together new research and critical thinking, this book examines the relationship between green box subsidies and the achievement of sustainable development goals, and explores options for future reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511739040
• Artikelnr.: 37843215

Inhaltsangabe

1. Overview Christophe Bellmann and Jonathan Hepburn; Part I. The Recent
Evolution of Agricultural Trade Policy Reform: 2. The historical context of
the green box Néstor Stancanelli; 3. Doha Round negotiations on the green
box, and beyond Jonathan Hepburn and Christophe Bellmann; 4. The reform of
the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Alan Swinbank; 5. Farm policy reform in
the US: past progress and future direction David Orden; 6. Agricultural
trade policy reform in Japan Masayoshi Honma; Part II. The Focus, Extent
and Economic Impact of Green Box Subsidies: 7. Agricultural support in the
green box: an analysis of EU, US and Japanese green box spending Jesús
Antón; 8. Green box subsidies and trade-distorting support: is there a
cumulative impact? Carlos Galperín and Ivana Doporto Miguez; 9. The
distributional structure of green box subsidies in the European Union and
France Vincent Chatellier; 10. The distributional structure of US green box
subsidies Harry de Gorter; Part III. Green Box Subsidies and Developing
Countries: 11. Agricultural subsidies in the WTO green box: opportunities
and challenges for developing countries André Nassar, Maria Elba
Rodriguez-Alcalá and Cinthia C. Costa; 12. Use of green box measures by
developing countries: an assessment Biswajit Dhar; 13. A Chinese
perspective on the green box Jianmin Xie; 14. African countries and the
green box Abena Oduro; Part IV. Green Box Subsidies and the Environment:
15. The environmental impact of green box subsidies: exploring the linkages
Ron Steenblik and Charles Tsai; 16. The environmental impact of European
Union green box subsidies Ariel Brunner and Harry Huyton; 17. The
environmental impact of US green box subsidies Jane Earley; 18. Biofuels
subsidies and the green box Tim Josling, Freeman Spogli and David
Blandford; Part V. Looking Forward: How Can Change Take Place?: 19.
Improving monitoring and surveillance of green box subsidies Andrea Cerda;
20. Subsidy reform in the EU context: options for achieving change Teresa
Cavero; 21. Subsidy reform in the US context: deviating from decoupling Ann
Tutwiler; 22. Subsidy reform in Japan: options for achieving change
Kazuhito Yamashita; 23. Towards a green box subsidy regime that promotes
sustainable development: strategies for achieving change Pedro de Camargo
Neto and Renato Henz.