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Achieving food security in China: implications of World Trade Organization accession (pdf 600kb)

This report looks at the effect of China's WTO accession commitments on its agricultural sector.

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, after 15 years of difficult negotiations, was a momentous event for China and for the world economy. However, China's accession to the WTO did not have unanimous approval within the country.

The results of this research report show that trying to maintain the existing level of food self-sufficiency would be extremely costly for China. It also shows that attempting to reduce rural-urban income inequality through tariffs, subsidies or other methods of support to agriculture, would also be very costly to the welfare of China's society as a whole.

This report is downloadable in two separate parts.

 

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