Green Box Criteria: a Theoretical Assessment

The report is the first of two reports undertaken by the Policy Branch of AAFC concerning WTO "green box" crteria and production neutrality. This first report provides a non-technical discussion on whether green box criteria is sufficient to ensure the production neu-trality of different kinds of direct payment programs.

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