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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries High quality books Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries By:Roman Keeney,L. Alan Winters Published on 2006 by World Bank Publications Abstract: Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect poor farmers. The authors' findings reject this claim. The analysis uses detailed data on farm incomes to show that major commodity programs are highly regressive in the United States, and that the only serious losses under trade reform are among large, wealthy farmers in a few heavily protected subsectors. In contrast, analysis using household data from 15 developing countries indicates that reforming rich countries' agricul...