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The lure of big benefits from successful conclusion of the multilateral negotiations and the risks of bilateral and regional routes if these negotiations fail should not be taken by the developing countries as determining factors in their moves in the current WTO Doha negotiations. Working...
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This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing …
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regularly borne by a typical Philippine food exporter to be less than three percent of sales, a relatively inconsequential ratio …
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Surveillance programs on farms and in the local environment provide an essential protection against the importation and spread of exotic diseases. Combined with border quarantine measures, these programs protect both consumers and producers from major health concerns and disease incursions that...
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gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food … security. It does so retrospectively and by projecting a model of the world economy that compares alternative growth strategies …
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gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food … security. It does so retrospectively and by projecting a model of the world economy that compares alternative growth strategies …
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This paper empirically examines the effectiveness of a safeguard tariff in the Japanese market for imported pork parts. The goals are, first, to consider a refinement to the traditional market-based method for evasion detection, and, second, to apply the method in a setting where evasion is...
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production, and thus distort prices in the world market. The distorting effects of international trade can be distinguished … equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this approximation are : first, the estimation of the world price effect of removal of … world prices on domestic prices through a price transmission model; third, estimation of the impact on domestic production …
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China's early industrialization created distortions. This paper identifies major distortions in the Chinese economy in the pre-reform era and brings agricultural distortions into perspective. Comparison is made of the reform experience in Chinese industry and agriculture. It suggests that with...
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In the Doha Round of negotiations on agriculture it has been decided that all developing and least developed Member countries of the WTO will have access to a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This means that developing countries will now have the option to temporarily impose higher tariff...
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