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Two-tier asymmetric information as a motive for trade, trade policies, and inefficient trade agreements:
Bouët, Antoine; Laborde Debucquet, David; Martimort, David - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This theoretical paper intends to provide an explanation of the implementation of behind-the-border policies, border policies, and of the inefficiency of trade negotiations. We consider a general equilibrium model of international trade with two identical countries, two commodities, a...
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Impact simulation of ECOWAS rice self-sufficiency policy:
Fofana, Ismaël; Goundan, Anatole; Domgho, Magne; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Rice is a strategic commodity for food security in West Africa. Its consumption has grown rapidly over time as a result of population growth, urbanization, and increasing purchasing power. Dependency on imported rice exposes the region to external shocks stemming from the global market. Given...
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Explicitly integrating institutions into bioeconomic modeling:
Swallow, Kimberly A.; Swallow, Brent M. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
Bioeconomic models can provide powerful insights into the interactions between people and the natural ecosystems on which they depend. For example, bioeconomic models of fisheries have long been used to provide early warnings about the sustainability of harvest levels or the impacts of new...
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The tide that does not raise all boats: An assessment of EU preferential trade policies:
Cipollina, Maria; Laborde Debucquet, David; Salvatici, Luca - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The aim of this paper is to assess of the impact of the European Union’s trade preferences on global trade, focusing on several methodological issues that are relevant to the trade-creating impact of these preferences. Using highly disaggregated eight-digit data in a theoretically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132657
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Towards understanding economic growth in Africa: A reinterpretation of the Lewis Model:
Diao, Xinshen; McMillan, Margaret S. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
Africa’s recent economic growth is at a historical high, the patterns associated with this growth appear to be quite different from the Asian experiences where rapid growth was fueled by labor intensive, export-oriented manufacturing. Because this pattern differs with our typical view of...
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Food security in a world of natural resource scarcity: The role of agricultural technologies
Rosegrant, Mark W.; Koo, Jawoo; Cenacchi, Nicola; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Climate change, population, and income growth will drive food demand in the coming decades. Baseline scenarios show food prices for maize, rice, and wheat would significantly increase between 2005 and 2050, and the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132821
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Market imperfections for tractor service provision in Nigeria: International perspectives and empirical evidence:
Takeshima, Hiroyuki - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
In order to distinguish the impacts of technology adoption at the extensive margin from those at the intensive margin, in the empirical analyses we tested these hypotheses focusing on the differences among marginal adopters of tractor hiring services and nonadopters of similar characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272216
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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare states of Western Europe. The present paper uses a simulation model to analyse the effects of revenue neutral flat rate tax reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of...
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Modelling the Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes Using Complementary Datasets
Savage, Michael; Callan, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Comprehensive modelling of the impact of taxes and tax policy options requires data on the impact at micro-level of both direct and indirect taxes. There are, however, limits on the amount of data that can be gathered by any one survey. With some exceptions, most notably the Living Costs and...
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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution … driven by looks than self-esteem. Counterfactual wage distributions, constructed using distribution regression, show a beauty … premium for women at the bottom of the wage distribution. However, most of this is explained by the fact that attractive women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011188126