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Asian Trade Flows: Trends, Patterns and Projections

Athukorala, Prema-Chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

This paper provides trade flow projections for major Asian developing economies (ADEs) for the next two decades against the backdrop of an in-depth analysis of policy shifts and trade patterns over the past 4 decades. Merchandise trade of ADEs has grown at a much faster rate in the global...

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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 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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Implications for Indonesia of Asia's Rise in the Global Economy

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

This paper projects Indonesia's production and trade patterns to 2020 and 2030 in the course of global economic development under various growth and policy scenarios. We employ the GTAP model and Version 8.1 of the GTAP database, along with supplementary data from a range of sources to support...

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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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Costing Global Trade Barriers, 1900 to 2050

Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

By how much did the cost of governmental barriers to trade change over the 20th century, and how might they change by the middle of the 21st century? This paper addresses that question by first reviewing evidence on the changing extent of global trade restrictions since 1900, particularly for...

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Estimating Effects of Price-distorting Policies Using Alternative Distortions Databases

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper addresses three questions relating to the very extensive use of the GTAP global trade protection database: Are there additional price-distorting policy instruments worthy of inclusion in the base year? What is the appropriate counterfactual set of price distortions in the year of...

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Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns and Determinants of Trade Flows

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Menon, Jayant - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This paper examines the extent and pattern of global production sharing, focusing on East Asia, and probes its implications for the analysis of the determinants of trade flows. Reflecting rapid global spread of production sharing, trade in parts and components has increased at a much faster rate...

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Promoting Domestic Reforms Through Regionalism

Dee, Philippa - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. The purpose of the paper is to examine in some detail both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on...

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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 … Phytosanitary (SPS) measures, despite their increasing prevalence both in the media and in WTO disputes. SPS measures, like other …’ SPS notifications to the WTO at the product level to test the importance of negotiated tariff reductions as a driver for …

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