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6.05) and the World Bank’s LINKAGE model of the global economy are employed to examine the impact first of current … poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could move the world some way towards those desirable outcomes, but more so the more …
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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 … classifying themselves at WTO as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption, but it does offer some benefit …
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Historically, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduced global economic welfare and...
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Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...
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gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … projecting a model of the world economy which compares alternative growth strategies, trade policy scenarios and savings …
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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which …
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After a brief period of liberal agricultural policies, Central and East European (CEE) countries have begun to rely 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...
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the EC and (b) decrease mean price, increase volatility and increase private stockholding in the rest of the world. The …
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The dispute resolution procedures of the World Trade Organization allow sanctions to be imposed when a country is …
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