Comments on: If not now, when? (Agricultural trade reform) http://www.owen.org/blog/25 Thoughts from Owen in Africa Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:14:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AJ http://www.owen.org/blog/25#comment-64 AJ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:05:31 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=25#comment-64 Dani Rodrik says a similar thing here: http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2008/07/dont-cry-for-doha.html Dani Rodrik says a similar thing here:

http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2008/07/dont-cry-for-doha.html

]]> By: AJ http://www.owen.org/blog/25#comment-63 AJ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:04:06 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/?p=25#comment-63 One problem is that, in the short term, cutting agricultural subsidies will raise world food prices. It may be that this would be good in the long run be provoking a supply response and raising farm incomes, but it's far from clear that higher food prices do the latter for the very poorest (many of whom are net food producers at harvest time and net consumers the rest of the year). One problem is that, in the short term, cutting agricultural subsidies will raise world food prices. It may be that this would be good in the long run be provoking a supply response and raising farm incomes, but it’s far from clear that higher food prices do the latter for the very poorest (many of whom are net food producers at harvest time and net consumers the rest of the year).

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