http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2007/01/dohas-impact-on-africa.html Commentary on development, globalization, and trade by Jonathan Dingel Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:52:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2007/01/dohas-impact-on-africa.html/comment-page-1#comment-139 student Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:08:01 +0000 http://www.tradediversion.net/?p=368#comment-139 Maybe we are missing the point. This posting <a href="http://www.intereconomics.com/blogs/jff/2007/01/time-for-crazy-ideas-part-1.html" rel="nofollow">"Time for crazy ideas"</a> raises questions about whether the full set of assumptions about demand for food products, and hence the World Bank (and others I guess) estimates on the Doha Round is right or not. He is just a professor here, so maybe I am just reflecting what he has been saying in class, but these sound like good questions. Why do we want food prices to go up, if they will go up anyway, if we care about the poorer foor importers? More fundamentally, maybe these studies are just noise. Maybe we are missing the point. This posting “Time for crazy ideas” raises questions about whether the full set of assumptions about demand for food products, and hence the World Bank (and others I guess) estimates on the Doha Round is right or not. He is just a professor here, so maybe I am just reflecting what he has been saying in class, but these sound like good questions. Why do we want food prices to go up, if they will go up anyway, if we care about the poorer foor importers? More fundamentally, maybe these studies are just noise.

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