Liberalizing Trade in Agriculture: Developing Countries in Asia and the Post-Doha Agenda

Wilson, John S.

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

关键词: ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ADB;    AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES;    AGRICULTURAL EXPORTERS;    AGRICULTURAL MARKETS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2804
RP-ID  :  WPS2804

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The author provides an overview and datarelevant to the interests of developing countries as theyengage in continuing agricultural trade negotiations setforth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held inDoha, Qatar in November 2001. He examines countryperformance in agricultural trade, income levels, andpopulation characteristics, with a focus on developingcountry members of the Asian Development Bank. The authorconcludes that trends in agricultural trade in the past 10years are quite heterogeneous across developing regions.Shares of agriculture in GDP are still high in the East Asiaand Pacific and South Asia regions. Moreover, data indicatethat trade reform in export partners, particularly OECDcountries, will affect a significant share of the populationin these developing countries, resulting in rural povertyalleviation. Trade liberalization is expected to benefit netexporter countries, particularly those that are highly opento trade. What is also important, but often neglected, is acountry's pattern of specialization between domesticsupply and exports. The impact of trade reform through theWTO negotiations, particularly reforms undertaken inexporting partners can therefore have important implicationsin the post-Doha development agenda.