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Srinivasan, T.N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

rounds of multilateral negotiations under its auspices for reductions of trade barriers culminating in the URA in 1994. …

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Rice Varietal Improvement and International Exchange of Rice Germplasm.

Evenson, R.E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

This paper reviews econommic studies of rice research programs and attempts to identify the contributions of rice varietal improvement to changes in rice productivity. I also report some new work specifically addressed to the contributions of genetic resources to the production of rice varieties.

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Trade, tastes and Nutrition in India

Atkin, David - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

This paper introduces habit formation into an otherwise standard model of international trade. Household tastes evolve … over time to favor foods consumed as a child. The opening of trade causes preferred goods to rise in price, as these were …-run nutritional gains from agricultural trade liberalization and masks potential caloric losses for laborers. I examine the …

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Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do?

Levy, P.I. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

This paper considers the economic sanctions that were applied in the mid-1980s to pressure the South African government to end apartheid. It asks what role those sanctions played in the eventual demise of the apartheid regime and concludes that the role was probably very small. An alternative...

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Price and Trade Liberalization in East European Economies.

Fardmanesh, M.; Tan, L. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Regional Economic Integration and Article XXIV of the GATT.

Hamada, K.; Goto, J. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper analyses the impact of various configurations of regional economic integration on member countries as well as on outside countries under realistic assumptions. That is, we consider constant external tariffs as required by Article XXIV of the GATT and the asymmetric formation of the...

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Sanctions on South Africa: What Did They Do

Levy, Philip I. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

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Productivity, Competitiveness, and Export Growth in a Less Developed Economy: a Study of Indian Punjab.

Singh, L. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1994

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North-South Conflicts and their Management.

Ranis, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

analyse the current state of play and the character of these conflicts in each of the main arenas, focussing heavily on trade …

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As the Century Turns: Analytics, Empirics and Politics of Development

Srinivasan. T.N. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

The paper celebrates John Fei's life and contributions to economics by viewing them in the context of recent theoretical and empirical literature on the economics and politics of growth. It summarizes the lessons from the literature and development experience since the end of the second world...

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