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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- ACRONYMS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 PROJECT EVALUATION CRITERIA -- 3 EXTERNALITIES AND NONMARKET VALUATION -- 4 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND APPLIED WELFARE ANALYSIS -- 5 GOVERNANCE, RENT-SEEKING, GLOBAL TRADE, AND THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE -- 6 ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY: THEORY -- 7 AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA -- 8 AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN EUROPE AND ASIA -- 9 AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS RISK MANAGEMENT -- 10 CLIMATE CHANGE AND APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

AbstractSupply management (SM) in Canada's dairy sector was an obstacle to the successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Reform of agricultural SM regimes in sugar, peanuts, tobacco, and dairy in various jurisdictions are reviewed, and an analytic framework is developed to investigate how Canada might eliminate its dairy quota regime while not overcompensating producers. Compensation based on quota values amount to $5.9 billion if untargeted, but only $2.9 billion if targeted; in contrast, theoretically correct estimates of the loss that dairy producers would face range from $0.2 to $1.9 billion. Such costs are low enough not to impede the elimination of supply management.