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Wise interviewed on new report: “Subsidizing Inequality”
Timothy A. Wise was interviewed by The Real News Network on his recent policy brief, “The impacts of U.S. agricultural policies on Mexican producers,” which appears as part of the report, “Subsidizing Inequality: Mexican Corn Policy Since NAFTA.” The report, recently released in English by the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, will be presented at the center January 18.
Wise’s interview and policy brief focus on U.S. agricultural dumping under NAFTA. He estimates that U.S. exports of corn at prices below U.S. production costs – one of the WTO’s definitions of dumping – drove down Mexican prices and cost Mexican producers $6.6 billion in lost revenues from 1997-2005. Losses per hectare exceeded the value of the average payment under Mexico’s primary smallholder-oriented agricultural subsidy program. “Subsidizing Inequality” focuses on the inequities and inefficiencies in Mexico’s own agricultural policies in this larger trade context. Wise, along with other prominent researchers, presented the Spanish version of the report in Mexico in September.
Watch Wise’s interview on The Real News Network
Read “The impacts of U.S. agricultural policies on Mexican producers” in “Subsidizing Inequality”
Read Wise’s detailed Wilson Center monograph, “Agricultural Dumping Under NAFTA”
Read Wise’s blog posts on agriculture and development on Triple Crisis Blog
Read more on GDAE’s research program: Beyond Agricultural Subsidies
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