Doha Round of WTO and the Rice Sector of Pakistan

This study evaluates the impacts of the trade liberalization under doha round on basmati rice in pakistan using a partial equilibrium model. price integration analysis shows that there is a stable long-run relationship between farm gate price and wholesale price and between wholesale price and world price of basmati and non-basmati rice. direction of influence is from world price to wholesale price and from wholesale price to farm gate price. the welfare analysis indicates a net welfare gain for the nation as a whole under the doha round agricultural trade liberalization.