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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 … for China, since it is prospectively not only a major producer and consumer of GM farm products but also a potential … exporter of some of them. It explores the potential economic effects of China not adopting versus adopting GMOs when some of …

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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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Novel Indicators of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Agricultural Distortions in OECD Countries

Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer and consumer support estimates (PSEs and CSEs), can be poor indicators of the trade restrictiveness and...

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Transition Problems in Economic Reform: Agriculture in the Mexico-US Free Trade Agreement

Levy, Santiago; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

At what speed should Mexican agriculture be incorporated into the North American Free Trade Agreement (FTA)? What policies should characterize the transition? We use Mexican agriculture as a case study to analyse the transition problems that arise in most major economic reforms. In particular,...

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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 appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that...

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Domestic and Trade Policy for Central and East European Agriculture

Karp, Larry; Stefanou, Spiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

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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Market Stabilization and the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

Anderson, Ronald W. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

I solve numerically for stationary rational-expectations equilibria of a two-country, non-linear model of a storable commodity. With constant tariffs, price volatilities in both countries increase with an increase in the tariff rate of one country or with an increase in the storage cost in one...

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Peculiarities of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The dispute resolution procedures of the World Trade Organization allow sanctions to be imposed when a country is unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the retaliation process has ambiguities that need to be...

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Golden Rice and the Looming GMO Trade Debate: Implications for the Poor

Anderson, Kym; Pohl Nielsen, Chantal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The first generation of genetically modified crop varieties, currently most widespread in the maize and soybean sectors, sought to increase farmer profitability by improving agronomic traits. The next generation of biotech research is focusing also on breeding for attributes desired by...

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines whether, in the presence of trade preferences, Sub-Saharan African economies, and especially its poorest households, could gain from multilateral trade reform. The World Bank’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade...

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