- Title
- The World Trade Organisation's Doha cotton initiative: a tale of two issues
- Creator
- Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/73867
- Identifier
- vital:7134
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781405145153
- Abstract
- FOR many developing countries, especially in Africa and Central Asia, cotton is an important cash crop. It is receiving attention of late because four poor cotton-exporting West African countries (the Cotton-4: Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) have demanded that cotton subsidy and import tariff removal be part of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Cotton subsidies are mostly provided by governments in high-income countries, and part of the US cotton subsidy programme has been ruled illegal following a WTO dispute settlement case brought by Brazil. Hence some reform can be expected soon, especially if the DDA is to live up to its name of being a development round (Sumner, 2006). This paper seeks to provide estimates of what is at stake in terms of cotton
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Relation
- The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2007 p.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1401 Economic Theory; Competitiveness; Development; Economic structures; Exports; Incentives; Income; Markets; Net Exports
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