lifting more specific sector barriers to fdi is a priority for iceland electricity and fisheries mexico transport media and fixedline telecom and financial services japan and korea in the service sector and india aviation multibrand retail where targeted barriers to trade should also be removed insofar as some of the rising trend in inequality in many advanced oecd countries can be attributed to growing economic integration of emerging market economies recommendations aimed at further enhancing productivity through lower barriers to trade and fdi could in principle exacerbate wage inequality as well the rents created by agricultural support sometimes accrue to highincome farmers especially when it is granted in the form of price support energy subsidies are often motivated on equity grounds as poorer households income tends to be spent disproportionally on basic consumption goods such as food and energy