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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | How Decoupled Is the European Union's Single Farm Payment?
Autores: | Halmai,   Peter; Elekes,   Andrea; Velikovszky,   Laszlo.
Data: | 2006-06-14
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | CAP reform; WTO; Decoupling; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q17; Q18; F13; F15.
Resumo: | Our paper focuses on the key element of the 2003 CAP reform: on the single farm payment (SFP). The basic aim was to decouple direct payment from production decisions. Because of the widespread agricultural policy reforms (support producers with the least possible distortions) and of the on-going WTO negotiations, this is an issue attracting significant attention on behalf of agricultural economists. Different tools and different methodologies have been employed in the effort to better understand and rank policy measures in terms of their production and trade effects. Most of the literature classifies measures based on implementation criteria. Our paper assesses the decoupled nature of the single farm payment (SFP) based on WTO and OECD criteria. The EU argues that the payments do not distort trade and therefore should be placed in the WTO green box as a decoupled income support. Based on our analysis, this seems to be possible, as the SFP meets not only the current WTO (design based) criteria of decoupling, but can also be qualified as effective fully decoupled system using the OECD terminology.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

22483

http://purl.umn.edu/25339

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

International Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2006 Annual Meeting, August 12-18, 2006, Queensland, Australia

Contributed Paper

Formato:

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