Agriculture: the Cost of Joining the Common Market


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Study of the economic implications of acceptance of a common agricultural policy of the EC by the UK.




The Common Agricultural Policy


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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy which imposes high costs on taxpayers and consumers yet has proved very difficult to reform. Particular emphasis is placed on new developments affecting the shape of the CAP, including the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, Eastern enlargement, and developments in environmental policy. A distinctive feature of the book is the attention given to situating European agriculture within its global context and in relation to the food processing and agricultural supply industries.







Land, Labour, and Capital Markets in European Agriculture


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This book analyses the functioning of factor markets for agriculture in the EU-27 and several candidate countries.







Foreign Agriculture


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The Oxford Handbook of the European Union


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The Oxford Handbook of the European Union brings together numerous acknowledged specialists in their field to provide a comprehensive and clear assessment of the nature, evolution, workings, and impact of European integration.




Agricultural Policy and the Common Market


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Examination of the development of agricultural policy within the EC, with particular reference to obstacles in meeting objectives of the community and the issues facing the UK in case of entry into the common market - covers trade agreements and prices of agricultural products, economic implications of the common agricultural policy for EC countries and concludes that structural reform to improve efficiency in agriculture and enlargement of eec membership would contribute to improving the standard of living throughout the world. Statistical tables.




Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation


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The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.




The Political Economy of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy


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This book is the first to document the reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and to analyse the political and economic factors which determined the outcome of the negotiations. The policy (non-)reform will affect the world's global food security and agricultural ...