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Chinese Agricultural Reform, the WTO and FTA Negotiations
Yao, Shunli - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
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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Preferential Trading Agreements and Agricultural Liberalization in East and Southeast Asia
Pasadilla, Gloria O. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The paper analyzes how various preferential trading arrangements deal with agriculture liberalization and examines a few case studies highlighting the provisions on agriculture. It assesses the effect of preferential trade agreements on agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365181
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An Analysis of the Special Safeguard Mechanisms in the Doha Round of Negotiations - A Proposed Price-trigger-based Safeguard Mechanism
Pal, Parthapratim; Wadhwa, Deepika - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365123
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Impact of Export Subsidies on Pakistan’s Exports
Haque, Nadeem Ul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Throughout Pakistans history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indirect subsidies. Surprisingly, these policies have been continued without serious examination....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363429
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Agriculture and Food Security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
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/10011278139
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Agriculture and Food Security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
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
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A tale of pork prices : evasion and attenuation of a Japanese tariff
Onji, Kazuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363427
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Oecd Agricultural Trade Reforms Impact On India’s Prices And Producers Welfare
Mittal, Surabhi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this approximation are : first, the estimation of the world price effect of removal of … OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) distortions; second, estimation of the effects of changes in … world prices on domestic prices through a price transmission model; third, estimation of the impact on domestic production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363433
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Vietnam's Trade Policy Dilemmas
Vanzetti, David; Huong, Pham Lan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Vietnam faces alternative options in opening its economy to trade. It is about to join the World Trade Organization; as a member of the ASEAN Free Trade Area it is contemplating extending the regional trade area to include China, Korea and Japan; and it has recently concluded a bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365137
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Reforms in Indian Agro-processing and Agriculture Sectors in the Context of Unilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements
Ganesh-Kumar, A.; Panda, Manoj; Burfisher, Mary E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this paper, we explore the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on Indias agro-processing sector. We consider the direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, and the indirect effects on agro-processing of policy reforms in the primary agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365124