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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
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spread to the much more populous ASEAN region, China and India. This paper examines how that growth and associated structural …
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the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …
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absence of imports the United Kingdom could feed itself. Oil and chemical inputs into agriculture are probably more vulnerable …
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increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies …. Scarce government funds could be better used to support agriculture by providing partial loan guarantees, thus reducing … and trade policies should be used to support CEE agriculture, citing the example of OECD nations, and in particular the …
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A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …
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We estimate a time series model of weather shocks on English wheat yields for the early nineteenth century and use it to predict weather effects on yield levels from 1697 to 1871. This reveals that yields in the 1690s were depressed by unusually poor weather; and those in the late 1850s were...
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This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...
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results not just from equilibrium in the "political market-place", but also from the process by which decisions on agriculture …
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in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the … quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agriculture The data set admits consideration of effective taxes and …
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