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10 - Impact of the food crisis on developing countries and implications for agricultural trade policy

from PART 2 - Trade and law: WTO and beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

Baris Karapinar
Affiliation:
World Trade Institute
Christian Häberli
Affiliation:
World Trade Institute
Michael Herrmann
Affiliation:
Economist, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, Switzerland.
Ralf H. Peters
Affiliation:
Economist, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Food Crises and the WTO
World Trade Forum
, pp. 242 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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