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Agricultural Trade Reform Under the Doha Agenda: Some Key Issues

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2007

A successful agreement on agriculture is essential for an overall agreement under the WTOÂ’s Doha trade negotiations. Reaching agreement has been difficult, and as of August 2007, much still remains to be done if a successful agreement is to be reached. We consider three of the most...

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Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2005

This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World BankÂ’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural...

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2005

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

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: WhatÂ’s at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2005

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute the poorest households in developing countries but the...

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Economic Impacts of Policies Affecting Crop Biotechnology and Trade

Anderson, Kym - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2010

Agricultural biotechnologies, and especially transgenic crops, have the potential to boost food security in developing countries by offering higher incomes for farmers and lower-priced and better quality food for consumers. That potential is being heavily compromised, however, because the...

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Effects of Multilateral and Preferential Trade Policy Reform in Africa: The Case of Uganda

Anderson, Kym; Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2007

This paper estimates the effects on production, trade and economic welfare of current trade policy regimes throughout the world on Uganda relative to other economies, as a benchmark against which to examine various multilateral and preferential trade policy scenarios that might emerge over the...

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The challenge of Reducing Subsidies and Trade Barriers

Anderson, Kym - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2004

Phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international trade will yield extraordinarily high benefits relative to any adjustment costs, notwithstanding the considerable reforms that have already taken place over the past two decades. This paper surveys recent estimates,...

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On the Virtues of Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Anderson, Kym - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2005

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Impacts of Trade Reform: Sensitivity of Model Results to Key Assumptions

Valenzuela, Ernesto; Anderson, Kym; Hertel, Thomas Warren - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2007

The WTOÂ’s Doha Development Agenda has generated demand for estimates of the potential economic consequences of global trade reform. Recent improvements in the GTAP dataset have provided a much better representation of tariff restrictions as of 2001. However, despite its use by most global...

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Pecularities of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement

Anderson, Kym - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2002

unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …

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