Getting ready for the millennium round trade negotiations
Contents: 1. Overview / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson 2. Latin American perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla and Lucio Reca 3. Asian perspective / Marcus Noland 4. African perspective / Natasha Mukherjee and Rebecca Lee Harris 5. Transition Economies' perspective / Ulrike Grote and Peter Wehrheim 6. European Union perspective / Stefan Tangermann 7. United States of America perspective / Dale Hathaway 8. Least-developed Countries' perspective / Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Marcelle Thomas, and Valeria Pineiro 9. Cairns Group perspective / Kym Anderson.
Impact of the WTO Agreement on MENA Agriculture
The paper reviews the status of MENA agriculture trade and policies in relation with the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and future WTO negotiations. Using country-specific economy-wide models, the paper quantifies the impact of unilateral trade liberalization and reduction in domestic policy distortions. Drawing on these results and the current status of MENA agriculture, the paper provides recommendations in designing domestic policies to mitigate the likely unfavorable income redistribution effects in the context of the new trading system and increased globalization. It also analyzes policy options that would contribute most to the expansion of developing country exports; and how the WTO process can be used to improve domestic policies to support MENA's rural economies.
The Millennial of Castile (1943): the historical culture of Spanish Fascism
Abstract The creation of new symbols and historical myths were common practices of nationalist politics, especially in Fascist regimes. In 1943 the Franco regime organized the most impressive historical commemoration celebrated in post-war Spain: the Milenario of Castile. With its heterogeneous mixture of history and spectacle, the Milenario of Castile was by far the greatest historical commemoration promoted by the State during the 1940s. Taking the commemoration of the Milenario as a case study, this article examines the historical culture of Spanish Fascism, as well as the attempts of the Falangist intellectual elite to impose a concrete national narrative in post-war Spain. At the same time, the article analyses the historical discourses and aesthetics displayed throughout the commemoration, underlining its Fascist character, and consequently the transnational dimension of the Fascist politics of the past. Finally, the article reflects on the scope and limits of the process of Fascistisation in Franco's dictatorship, especially in its commemorative culture.