Wheat, Europe and the GATT : a political economy analysis
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Wheat, Europe and the GATT : a political economy analysis
Pinter, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this study concepts learnt in international political economy are adopted to highlight key security, production, financial and technological power structures. These power structures have transformed the interlocking and overlapping sets of bargains that have determined the European Community's wheat policy current during the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in progress at the time of writing. Thoughout the 1970s EC wheat price policy concentrated on supporting farm incomes, which neither permitted nor required an active external policy. In the 1980s however, prices were increasingly directed by market conditions. Shifts in the structures surrounding the wheat system had weakened the pan-European farm lobby. A patchwork of new agreements envolved between policy makers, commodity groups and non-farm lobbies, to support an active, rather than defensive, export policy. The implications of this new export orientation for the rest of the world via the Uruguay round of the GATT are examined.
Table of Contents
- Alternative approaches to policy analysis
- changing power structures
- price policy directions
- price policy proposals
- price policy debate
- price policy and national interests
- price policy decisions
- trade policy in the 1970s
- export competition in the 1980s
- lessons for policy makers. Appendix: wheat prices and agri-monetary rates.
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