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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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Who Should Bear the Cost of China's Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
China's capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the Chinese people out of poverty, but also has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution...
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Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns and Border Carbon Adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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Carbon-based Border Tax Adjustments and China's International Trade: Analysis based on a Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model
Zhang, ZhongXiang; Tang, Ling; Bao, Qin; Wang, Shouyang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
exports and imports. As an additional border tariff, BTAs will directly affect China's exports by cutting down exports price …. Furthermore, the simulation results for coping policies indicate that enhancing China's power in world price determination and …
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Grain price spikes and beggar-thy-neighbor policy responses: A global economywide analysis
Jensen, Hans G; Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated … the 2006-08 international price rise, but only by focusing on one commodity or using a back-of-the envelope (BOTE) method …
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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
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Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective
Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
agricultural disincentives in developing countries. However, plenty of price distortions remain. As well, the propensity of … contributes to the amplification of international food price fluctuations, yet it does little to advance national food security …
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Agricultural Trade Distortions During the Global Financial Crisis
Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The recent upward spike in the international price of food led some countries to raise export barriers. As in previous … price spike periods, that response by some food-exporting countries was accompanied by a lowering of import restrictions by … numerous food-importing countries. Both actions exacerbate the international price spike. This paper provides new evidence n …
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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
Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that … interventions to reduce beggar-thy-neighbor unilateral trade policy responses to food price fluctuations. …
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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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