scholarly journals The World Trade Organization between law and politics: negotiating a solution for public stockholding for food security purposes

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Matias E Margulis
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
The World

The corruption of political elites in Iraq – an economic analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haithem Kareem Sawaan
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
First Order ◽  
The World ◽  
Coalition Provisional Authority ◽  
Oil Revenues

This article examines the corruption of political elites in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 American occupation – a phenomenon that has had disastrous consequences for the country as well as astronomical fiscal costs. The corruption that has now become endemic has served not only to undermine reform and reconstruction efforts – while simultaneously accomplishing the embezzlement of billions of dollars – but also has left the Iraqi people exposed to a wide array of harms from contaminated wheat imports to an infrastructure in complete disarray to foreign machinations, including those of international food conglomerates. Through the acquiescence of corrupt Iraqi elites, the country has been laid open to external interests and foreign initiatives as well as those of the World Trade Organization (WTO) through means such as the 100 ‘orders’ signed by US ‘Ambassador’ Paul Bremer III under the auspices of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Graft and kickback schemes of every stripe are rife throughout the country, and monies donated in the form of international assistances have served to line the pockets of the corrupt, never reaching the intended recipients among the average Iraqi population in many instances. The vicious cycle is further perpetuated also through a corrupt judiciary that militates against any sort of meaningful transparency or oversight. Corruption, and that of the powerful elites in particular, has not only squandered genuine development opportunities that might have benefited the country at large and done much good to facilitate reconstruction efforts, but also it has – for the foreseeable future – thrown the issues of Iraqi oil revenues and food security as well as that of national sovereignty into a peril of the first order.

scholarly journals Negotiating Agriculture in the World Trade Organization: Food Security as a Non-Trade Concern

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Luísa Soares Peres ◽  
Letícia De Souza Daibert
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The World

WTO Rules and Public Stockholding for Food Security Purposes

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Kask
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract The 2007/08 food crisis, which revived interest in public stocks for food security purposes in different parts of the world, has sparked heated debates at every Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since the Bali Ministerial in December 2013. At the heart of these debates are the current rules of the WTO that apply to public stockholding and how they limit (or not) the ability of a government to constitute food stocks and pursue its food security objectives. This article discusses the current WTO rules that apply to food stockpiling and the rationale behind them. It describes the current WTO disciplines, notably in the area of domestic support, and examines the different types of support provided by the WTO Members under their public stockholding programs. It concludes by looking at the main arguments for and against the current rules.

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