Comments on: Not afraid of WTO http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:43:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Priya http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-521 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-521 A very different pespective.. thks for putting it up in your blog.. A very different pespective.. thks for putting it up in your blog..

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-522 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-522 Priya, this is Madhu Kishwar's second piece on the AGBs and WSF. Scroll down. I'd blogged on her first piece on January 19th. Priya, this is Madhu Kishwar’s second piece on the AGBs and WSF. Scroll down. I’d blogged on her first piece on January 19th.

]]> by: aNYa http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-523 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-523 "By contrast, farmers of countries like India have borne the brunt of negative subsidies and artificially-depressed prices" .. could someone elaborate .. Yazad? “By contrast, farmers of countries like India have borne the brunt of negative subsidies and artificially-depressed prices” .. could someone elaborate .. Yazad?

]]> by: aNYa http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-524 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-524 i can understand artifically depressed prices .. but what abt negative subsidies ..? i can understand artifically depressed prices .. but what abt negative subsidies ..?

]]> by: Yazad http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-525 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-525 Sharad Joshi of the <a href="http://www.shetkari.org" rel="nofollow">Shetkari Sangathana</a> has written extensively on negative subsidies to farmers. In a nutshell, government regulations on agriculture impose a cost to the farmer than exceeds the subsidy or support price that the government gives. In effect, it works out like an unwelcome tax. Joshi was Chairman of the Govt. of India's "Task Force on Agriculture" and prepared a detailed report which is <a href="http://www.shetkari.org/publications/report_on_tfa/index.htm" rel="nofollow">online</a>. <a href="http://www.shetkari.org/publications/report_on_tfa/ch_04.htm" rel="nofollow">Chapter 4</a> of the report talks about Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) which is the concept on which negative subsidy is based. You may also want to read chapters 3 & 5. Sharad Joshi of the Shetkari Sangathana has written extensively on negative subsidies to farmers. In a nutshell, government regulations on agriculture impose a cost to the farmer than exceeds the subsidy or support price that the government gives. In effect, it works out like an unwelcome tax.

Joshi was Chairman of the Govt. of India’s “Task Force on Agriculture” and prepared a detailed report which is online.

Chapter 4 of the report talks about Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) which is the concept on which negative subsidy is based. You may also want to read chapters 3 & 5.

]]> by: Lars Trieloff http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-526 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.yazadjal.com/2004/01/23/not-afraid-of-wto/#comment-526 <strong>Who’s afraid of WTO? Not</strong> Who’s afraid of WTO? Not us - About the advantages people in third- and second-world countries have thanks to globalization. [via AnarCapLib]... Who’s afraid of WTO? Not

Who’s afraid of WTO? Not us - About the advantages people in third- and second-world countries have thanks to globalization. [via AnarCapLib]…

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