We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …

Proposals for agricultural trade reform put forward by the main protagonists remain far apart, with little sign of … with the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model, a static, multi-commodity, multi-region, partial equilibrium trade …

Bosnia Herzegovina (BH) is in the process of joining the World Trade Organization in the near future and the European … trade model is used to estimate the potentially negative impacts of accession on production and trade in several specific …

Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific … sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade … employment effects of trade shocks are quite small, with the possible exception of the highly protected sugar sector …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

means of achieving food security. Restrictive trade policies, including specific tariffs on rice and sugar, and quantitative … pristine areas in an attempt to maintain self-sufficiency. On the other hand, more open trade may offer better options to … analyze the efficiency and distributional impacts of these agricultural trade policies. The results suggest that removing or …

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …

There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

countries between 1990 and 1999. It is shown that intraindustry trade actually causes the convergence of business cycles, while … there is no direct relation between business cycles and bilateral trade intensity. As far as intraindustry trade is … positively correlated with trade, the OCA endogeneity hypothesis is confirmed, although the argumentation follows Krugman (1993 …