Agricultural policy and trade reform; potential effects at global, national, and household levels.9264025731 Agricultural policy Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultural product markets. and trade reform; potential effects at global, national, and household levels. OECD OECD: see Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 2006 159 pages $67.00 Paperback HD1428 Carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries fisheries. From earliest times and in practically all countries, fisheries have been of industrial and commercial importance. In the large N Atlantic fishing grounds off Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, European and North American fishing fleets have long , this report attempts to quantify the likely national, sectoral, and household distributional consequences of a widespread and simultaneous reduction in agricultural trade protection and domestic support. The study is divided into two different sections that examine implications for global commodity markets, national economic welfare, and sectoral terms of trade Terms of trade The weighted average of a nation's export prices relative to its import prices. for a range of individual countries and regions based on simulations with a variant of the Global Trade Analysis Project model and then apply these projected aggregate impacts down to the household level for Brazil, Italy, Malawi, Mexico, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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