WTO, Trade Liberalization, and Rural Poverty in the Philippines: Is Rice Special?

摘要

Along with South Korea and Japan, the Philippines were granted an exemption from the removal of quotas on rice imports in 1995 under Annex 5 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. This exemption was to expire in mid 2005, but an extension is currently under negotiation. We examine the poverty impacts of both a Doha agreement and free world trade, combined with the elimination of domestic tariffs and rice import quotas, in the Philippines.