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The government of Jordan has been subsidising the foodgrains to ensure food security for the poor people on the one hand and giving price support to protect farmers from price risk on the other hand. The main objective of this chapter is to do an analysis of product specific support to wheat in Jordan under Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). Domestic support notifications submitted by Jordan to WTO clearly shows that Jordan has no policy space to implement food security programme based on procurement of wheat at the administered price as current AMS is higher than bound AMS during 2009–2010.
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UNDP (2014) Explanatory note on the 2014 Human Development Report composite indices: Jordan. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/JOR.pdf. Accessed 6 Dec 2014
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Sharma, S.K. (2016). Jordan: Product Specific Support to Wheat Under WTO Regime. In: The WTO and Food Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2179-4_8
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