Multilateral agricultural trade reform: Potential impacts of current negotiations on New Zealand*

Food Futures: Developing effective food systems interventions to improve public health nutrition

“…Also, agricultural policies can have important effects. At a national level, NZ government direct support (subsidies) to agricultural producers is the lowest among OECD economies (Rae et al, 2004). Nevertheless, it is likely that the NZ food system is affected by international subsidizing schemes, such as the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2014).…”

Environmental Impact of India's Trade Liberalization

“…CGE assessments of the impact of agricultural liberalization in the Doha Round include Hertel et al 2000;Diao et al, 2001;Beghin J. C. Et al., 2002;Elbehri and Leetmaa, 2002;van Meijl and van Tongeren, 2001;Rae and Strutt, 2002;Dimaranan et al, 2003;Francois et al, and this list does not intend to be exhaustive. Although they all conclude that a liberalization of border protection and internal support would increase world prices and world trade, and would have a positive impact on global welfare, the results of the existing studies are rather contrasted.…”

“…The existing literature provides very little insight about the consequence of such evening out. Rae (2002) applies a cocktail, non-linear formula, but directly at the GTAP classification level (12 agricultural commodities, 8 processed food products), where tariff peaks are generally mixed together with many other products: to a large extent, the evening out is already made in the sectoral aggregation. To our knowledge, the only instances of dealing with tariff peaks in a multilateral approach are Hoekman et al (2002a, b) in a partial equilibrium model, and Fontagné et al (2002), in a CGE analysis focusing mainly on industry.…”

Dairy disaggregation and joint production in an economy‐wide model*‡

“…1 1 See, for example, Francois and Wignaraja (2008), Scollay and Gilbert (2001), Rae and Strutt (2004) and Winchester (2006). …”

“…2 2 See, for example, Anderson and van der Mensbrugghe (2007), Francois and Wignaraja (2008), Grant et al. (2007), Rae and Strutt (2004), Robinson and Thierfelder (2002) and Scollay and Gilbert (2000). …”