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This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would affect welfare in the two countries. We conduct a partial equilibrium analysis to simulate welfare implications of trade between the two countries under three alternative trade...
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The paper examines the effect of an RP-US FTA in the Philippine agricultural sector. Using an Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) Model, it analyzes the impact of the removal of tariffs on imports from the US on the various commodities in agriculture and food processing. The simulation results...
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Non-tariff measures are everywhere vilified for preventing exports, especially of agriculture, from developing countries. Philippine exporters seem to be taking things in stride, however. The paper estimates the cost of certification regularly borne by a typical Philippine food exporter to be...
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India is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world after China. Since the 1980s, the … international trade in fruits and vegetables has expanded rapidly. The number of commodities as well as the number of varieties … vegetables for consumption both in the fresh and the processed form. Also there is a wide diversification in production pattern …
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Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began...
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Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278244
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 …
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Rich countries use a combination of domestic market interventions and border protection or export subsidies as a part … production, and thus distort prices in the world market. The distorting effects of international trade can be distinguished …
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This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing its mandates of buying high and selling low. Because the Philippine agriculture is greatly affected by extreme climate events such as El Nio and La Nia, this paper highlights...
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The paper describes the environment under which RP-US Agricultural trade currently operates. It also highlights key issues affecting current trade flows between the Philippines and the US, and provides background information vital for future bilateral agricultural negotiations with the U.S....
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