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Focuses on three policy areas that are particularly damaging for developing countries: traditional agricultural subsidy and trade policies that support the incomes of American farmers at the expense of farmers elsewhere; the biofuels mandate; and weak regulation of antibiotic use in livestock.
About the author
Kimberly Ann Elliott is a senior fellow with the Center for Global Development and the author or coauthor of numerous
books and articles on trade policy and globalization, economic sanctions, and food security. Her book, Delivering on Doha:
Farm Trade and the Poor, was copublished in July 2006 by the Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for
International Economics. She served on a National Research Council committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards
and on the USDA Consultative Group on the Elimination of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports, and is currently a member
of the National Advisory Committee for Labor Provisions in U.S. Free Trade Agreements.
Summary
Focuses on three policy areas that are particularly damaging for developing countries: traditional agricultural subsidy and trade policies that support the incomes of American farmers at the expense of farmers elsewhere; the biofuels mandate; and weak regulation of antibiotic use in livestock.
