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Heroes of the developing world? : Emerging powers in WTO agriculture negotiations and dispute settlement Hopewell, Kristen, 1978-

Abstract

Agriculture has been a key issue of North-South struggle at the WTO. Emerging powers like China, India and Brazil have portrayed themselves as leaders of the Global South, crusading to make the trading system fairer for developing countries. This article analyzes three cases – the cotton dispute, subsidies and public stockholding – that have been at the center of WTO negotiations and dispute settlement on agriculture since the collapse of the Doha Round. While presenting themselves as champions of the developing world, I show that the emerging powers have been advancing their own interests, often at the expense of other developing countries.

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Heroes of the developing world? : Emerging powers in WTO agriculture negotiations and dispute settlement
Creator
Hopewell, Kristen, 1978-
Date Issued
2021-03-19
Description
Agriculture has been a key issue of North-South struggle at the WTO. Emerging powers like China, India and Brazil have portrayed themselves as leaders of the Global South, crusading to make the trading system fairer for developing countries. This article analyzes three cases – the cotton dispute, subsidies and public stockholding – that have been at the center of WTO negotiations and dispute settlement on agriculture since the collapse of the Doha Round. While presenting themselves as champions of the developing world, I show that the emerging powers have been advancing their own interests, often at the expense of other developing countries.
Subject
Emerging powers; World Trade Organization (WTO); Agriculture; Subsidies; Cotton; China; India; Brazil; Third Worldism
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
Open access funding provided by the UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research.
Date Available
2023-05-31
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0432764
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84742
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of
Citation
Hopewell, Kristen. "Heroes of the Developing World? Emerging Powers in WTO Agriculture Negotiations and Dispute Settlement." The Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 49, no. 3, 2022, pp. 561-584.
Publisher DOI
10.1080/03066150.2021.1873292
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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