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Sharma, Sachin Kumar et al |
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Demystifying blue box support to agriculture under the WTO: Implications for developing countries |
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South Asia Economic Journal |
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22(2), Sep, 2021: p.161-185 |
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Developing members at the WTO face a shrinkage in policy space for supporting their agricultural sector due to the limited room available under the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). Contrastingly, most developed members can provide high levels of product-specific support without breaching their commitments on account of their support entitlements. For some of these members, the so-called ‘Blue Box’ under the AoA, plays a pivotal role in expanding the policy space with respect to domestic support to agricultural products. Though a lot of scholarship has discussed and examined other support provisions under the AoA, the ‘Blue Box’ remains relatively shrouded in mystery. Testimony to this is the fact that although the Blue Box has found use amongst developed members, no developing member, except for China in 2016, has ever used the Blue Box to support their producers. Given the impasse in the Doha Round of negotiations and limited flexibilities available under the AoA, this paper examines the feasibility and compatibility Blue Box measures with developing members’ socio-economic situation. Findings of this paper bring to fore the variations in member practice and the operational flexibilities available in implementing Blue Box programmes to support agriculture. – Reproduced |
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Domestic support, Blue box, WTO and agriculture, Developing countries, Product-specific support, Policy space, Negotiations |
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29307 |
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South Asia Economic Journal |
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE |
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