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The handbook on international trade policy is an insightful and comprehensive reference tool focusing on trade policy issues in the era of globalization. Each specially commissioned chapter deals with important international trade issues, discusses the current literature on the subject, and...
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This indispensable volume brings together the key contributions to the academic literature on the subject of the political economy of trade policy. Topics covered include unilateral and multilateral trade policies, international trade agreements and administered protection. In their...
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Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. The contributors to the book deal with a broad range of topics, including...
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Agriculture in the New Global Economy examines the extent to which the political economy of agriculture and the food … agriculture and food system with the spread of globalisation to this traditionally local sector. Structural change and emerging … technologies have contributed to this transformation, which has extended to the political environment in which agriculture operates …
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Consumer Support Estimates, OECD Database 1986-2012, at www.oecd.org/agriculture/pse -- Orden, David, David Blandford and Tim … Tim Josling (eds.) (2005), The WTO and Agriculture (two volumes), Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar … (2008a), 'Revised Draft Modalities for Agriculture', TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4, World Trade Organization, Geneva, 6 December -- WTO …
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The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the poor can take advantage of growth require further research. Beyond Food Production takes on this challenge, investigating four important channels: rural labor markets, farm...
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Despite its great importance, there are surprisingly few economic studies of the impact of climate on agriculture and … how agriculture can adapt under a variety of conditions. This book examines 22 countries across four continents, including … climate change on agriculture -- 4. The Ricardian method -- 5. Modeling adaptation to climate change -- 6. Structural …
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The Economics of Environment and Development is a carefully edited selection of Edward Barbier's most influential papers on the role of environmental economics in economic development. This book begins with a brief overview and summary of the papers, placing each in its original context and in...
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This important book challenges conventional development theory by addressing not only technological but also socio-economic factors influencing low agricultural productivity in the developing world. Agricultural productivity has long been regarded as a fundamental factor in influencing economic...
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