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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246604
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Krueger/Schiff/Valdés Revisited: Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries since 1960
Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdés (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557010
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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture
Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530343
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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 … some of those biotechnologies in agriculture have, however, raised concerns, particularly over the environmental and food … for China, since it is prospectively not only a major producer and consumer of GM farm products but also a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124347
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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster
An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789139
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083318
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Are clusters more resilient in crises? Evidence from French exporters in 2008-2009
Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Mayneris, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Clusters have already been extensively shown to favor firm-level economic performance (productivity, exports, innovation etc.). However, little is known about the capacity of firms in clusters to resist economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze whether firms that agglomerate in clusters and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084140
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Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization
Anderson, Kym; Nelgen, Signe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
National barriers to trade are often varied to insulate domestic markets from international price variability. This paper explores the extent of that behavior by governments using estimates of agricultural price distortions in 75 countries. Newly estimated price transmission elasticities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692306
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207521
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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
Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468528