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The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis
Martin, William J.; Anderson, Kym - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
disaggregated data on applied and bound rates of protection. Unfortunately, the framework in which we operate means that we are … measurement of protection; incorporation of barriers to trade in services; representation of the counterfactual; aggregation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525303
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Quality Systems in the Agri-Food Industry - Implementation, Cost, Benefit and Strategies
Krieger, Stephanie; Schiefer, Gerhard - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
The management of supply chains of the agri-food sector has become a very complex structure. Product variety has decreased, changes in legislatives and quality management requirements have a high influence, international trade is much higher, consumer demands about product freshness and food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060479
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The Effects of Trade Liberalization of the Environment: An Empirical Study
McCarney, Geoffrey R.; Adamowicz, Wiktor L. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
We seek to contribute to the emerging economic theory on trade, the environment and development. Using panel data across countries, econometric models are estimated to predict the effects of openness on organic water pollutant (BOD) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Results indicate that freer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805122
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Agricultural Convergence and Competitiveness in the EU-15 Regions
Sassi, Maria - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
On the basis of the stochastic kernel approach, the paper verifies the agricultural convergence process from 1994-2003 across a sample of 170 EU-15 regions at Nuts2 level classified according to their initial competitive profile through the Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps technique. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805126
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Flexible Trade Policies in Agriculture Sectors of Developing Countries: Proposing a Technical Approach for Sri Lanka
Herath, Anura - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
, facilitated by some protection, is necessary for equitable economic development. As the country budget restricts domestic support … schedules to address rural development (RD), food security (FS) and livelihood security (LS) needs through protection. The study … identified appropriate criteria to designate agriculture products contributing to RD, FS, and LS for protection from dumping and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805137
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Trade, Food Standards and Poverty: The Case of High-Value Vegetable Exports from Senegal
Maertens, Miet - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
Agricultural supply chains are changing globally with pervasive food standards and increased vertical coordination. The impact of these changes for developing countries and for small farmers in those countries is not yet well understood. We analyze the developments in high-standards FFV supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805138
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Access of Eastern African Farmers to Domestic and International Markets: Opportunities and Constraints
Bahiigwa, Godfrey - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges that Eastern African farmers face in accessing domestic, regional and international markets. With rising population and incomes, domestic markets offer great opportunities for farmers. However, because of structural, institutional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805167
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Agriculturally Related Environmental Issues in Free Trade Agreements
Colyer, Dale - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
under its 2002 Trade Promotion Act (PL 107-210). Furthermore, the declaration establishing the Doha Round of multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805181
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Price Developments on the World Markets for Milk Products: The Case of Butter
Hockmann, Heinrich; Voneki, Eva - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
A time series model is estimated to identify the interrelation among prices on the international and the EU domestic market for butter. Although the findings were not derived from a causal model, the inspection of the data provides economically reasonable and important insights in structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805204
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On Measuring Consumer Welfare Effects of Trade Reform
Huang, Sophia Wu; Huang, Kuo S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
We develop a measure of consumer welfare by approximating Hicksian compensating variation as a function of all commodity prices and compensated price elasticities. The unique feature of this approach is that all direct- and cross-commodity effects of a demand system are incorporated into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805212