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Agricultural market liberalization is essential in achieving a successful Doha Round agreement because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries. But the implications for developing countries, especially the poorest, are more complex than the current debate suggests. This volume examines the structure of agricultural support in rich countries and explores the challenges as well as opportunities that developing countries might face if the Doha Round succeeds in reforming OECD agriculture policies.

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How it is that a set of trade negotiations centred on agriculture has come to be viewed as a development round is one of the enduring mysteries of the world trade regime. Kim Elliott has done us all a service with this sober analysis. Elliott strips away the hype and documents the uncertainties and complexities of the likely consequences for poor nations. Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Kim Elliott has done us all a service with this sober analysis. Elliott strips away the hype and documents the uncertainties and complexities of the likely consequences for poor nations. -- Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ...opens to a broad audience the policy choices of today that will determine the character of the agricultural trade regime for a generation to come. -- David Orden, senior research fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, and professor, Virginia Tech It should serve as an indispensable reference guide for both trade policy generalists and agricultural policy specialists. -- Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute

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Kimberly Ann Elliott, former visiting fellow, is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on a variety of trade policy and globalization issues. Much of her work focuses on the uses of economic leverage in international negotiations, including both economic sanctions for foreign policy goals and trade threats and sanctions in commercial disputes.

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