Producer protection is defined as the ratio between the average price received by producers (measured at the farm gate), including net payments per unit of current output, and the border price (measured at the farm gate). For instance, a coefficient of 1.10 suggests that farmers, overall,...

Cette étude examine les problématiques actuelles et les méthodes pour mesurer l’impact sur les échanges des mesures techniques, notamment concernant la sécurité des aliments. Elle aborde la question des effets sur les échanges de la résolution des points de dissension concernant la...

The governments of most developed, and many developing, countries impose border measures—tariffs, tariff rate quotas and export subsidies—to boost the domestic market prices of agricultural commodities. In some OECD countries, governments also provide financial support to their agricultural...

This paper was prepared as a background note for a discussion held at the 2016 OECD Global Forum on Competition on competition and human rights. It focuses on the interaction between competition law, freedom of association and fixing salaries, and deal with the question of whether competition...