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Bhattacharyya, Sambit - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

What are the root causes of Africa's current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? We investigate the relative contributions of these factors using an instrumental variable approach. The...

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Vulnerability and poverty in Timor-Lesté

Jha, Raghbendra; Dang, Tu - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … inadequacy are more severe than overall poverty and vulnerability to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability in Timor-Leste' is …

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Environmental and Health Protections, or New Protectionism? Determinants of SPS Notifications by WTO Members

Aisbett, Emma Kate; Pearson, Lee M. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

The drastic reductions in bound tariffs agreed by WTO members over the past half century have been accompanied by a substantial rise in non-tariff barriers to trade. Many commentators have drawn a causal link between these two phenomena, but there have been few attempts to empirically test this...

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Could the proposed WTO Special Safeguard Mechanism protect farmers from low international prices?

Thennakoon, Jayanthi; Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper offers an empirical analysis of the proposal by some developing countries for an agricultural Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that the loss-averting domestic producer benefits that...

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Food Security vs. Food Self-Sufficiency: The Indonesian Case

Warr, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

security and poverty reduction on the other. Unfortunately, Indonesia's commitment to raising agricultural productivity has …

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Food security policy options for China: lessons from other countries

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

As China becomes more industrial and urbanized, it is likely to become more dependent over time on imports of (especially land-intensive) farm products, most notably livestock feedstuffs. If farmers are slow to adjust to their declining competitiveness, for example by obtaining off-farm...

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Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Rapidly Changing Role of RiceAbstract: Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress...

Timmer, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

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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Food Security in Asia and the Pacific: The Rapidly Changing Role of Rice

Timmer, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food …

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Growth in Densely Populated Asia: Implications for Primary Product Exporters

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

Economic growth and integration in Asia is rapidly increasing the global economic importance of the region. To the extent that this growth continues and is strongest in natural resource-poor Asian economies, it will add to global demand for imports of primary products, to the benefit of...

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