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High food prices in 2008 and 2010 generated concern about food security in developing countries. The number of food insecure people was estimated to have jumped significantly and food assistance donors were faced with unexpectedly high procurement bills. This paper discusses how high food prices...
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There exists an extensive literature that attempts to identify important factors that determine trade policies. An … understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a … in an attempt to understand why anti-trade bias (as opposed to pro-trade bias, which is predicted by the G&H (1994) model …
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into effect. This paper reviews these developments and their implications for trade and future trade negotiations. The WTO …
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Despite the presence of food miles labels and carbon labels on the market for many years, relatively little data is available on how consumers respond to these labels. It is one thing to show people saying in surveys they will use carbon labels, and quite another to have evidence of people...
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Using a generalized gravity equation, this study tests for the Linder effect in differentiated agrifood product trade …, i.e. as the demand structures of two countries become more similar, their trade intensity increases. Two proxies of … to capture the Linder effect. In addition, two measures of bilateral trade, the Grubel and Lloyed index, and the value of …
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Current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) World Trade Organisation negotiations include proposals that would affect the … trade barriers that protect Canada’s chicken producers from foreign competition. This research analyses the effects of the …
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In a meta-analysis of trade policy models, Hess and von Cramon-Taubadel (2008) use over 5800 simulated welfare effects … conclude that meta-analysis can provide insights into the behaviour of trade policy models beyond what is possible with …
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