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Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
Ashraf, Nava; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which … controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet provides … smallholder farmers with information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural …
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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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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Changing contributions of different agricultural policy instruments to global reductions in trade and welfare
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
border taxes are the dominant instrument affecting global trade and welfare, but they also suggest declines in export taxes …
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Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa hampered farmers’ contributions to economic growth and poverty reduction. While there has been much policy reform over the past two decades, the injections of agricultural development funding, together with on-going...
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Distorted Agricultural Incentives and Economic Development: Asia’s Experience
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Earnings from farming in many low-income countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123883
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Global Distortions to Agricultural Markets: New Indicators of Trade and Welfare Impacts, 1955 to 2007
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L.; Lloyd, Peter J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies’ economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade- and welfare-reducing effects of...
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China, GMOs and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products
Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization following its opening up to global markets during the past two decades has been making that more difficult, and its accession to the WTO may add to that difficulty. New...
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Trade Standards and the Political Economy of Genetically Modified Food
Anderson, Kym; Damania, Richard; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
A common-agency lobbying model is developed to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies towards genetically modified food. Our results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policy-makers to influence standards and consumers and...
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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II
Anderson, Kym; Lloyd, Peter J; Maclaren, Donald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
export orientation of many farm industries. The overall pattern for Australia is contrasted with that revealed by comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136689