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Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance
Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476187
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Modeling the global trade and environmental impacts of biofuel policies
Bouët, Antoine; Dimaranan, Betina V.; Valin, Hugo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
There is rising skepticism about the potential positive environmental impacts of first generation biofuels. Growing biofuel crops could induce diversion of other crops dedicated to food and feed needs. The relocation of production could increase deforestation and bring significant new volumes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519784
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Formal-informal economy linkages and unemployment in South Africa:
Davies, Rob; Thurlow, James - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
South Africa's high involuntary unemployment and small informal sector are attributed to an underperforming formal sector and barriers to entry in the informal sector. This paper examines the economywide linkages between the formal and informal economies while accounting for different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521826
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Is SAFTA trade creating or trade diverting?: A computable general equilibrium assessment with a focus on Sri Lanka
Bouet, Antoine; Mevel, Simon; Thomas, Marcelle - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) entered its second phase of implementation in 2008. The creation of a free trade area is expected to affect its participants—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521827
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Trade liberalization, market reforms and competitiveness of Indian dairy sector
Sharma, Vijay Paul; Gulati, Ashok - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003
opening-up increasingly exposed the Indian dairy sector to the global markets, which in-turn are distorted by export subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996577
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Trade liberalization under CAFTA: an analysis of the agreement with special reference to agriculture and smallholders in Central America
Morley, Samuel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
that this time is used wisely to increase productivity, switch to more profitable crops and take advantage of the new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996578
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Marketing constraints on rice exports from Viet Nam
Goletti, Francesco; Minot, Nicholas; Berry, Philippe - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
situation of food shortages, the country is now the second largest rice exporter after Thailand. Export projections indicate … that there is potential for further export growth in all but the most pessimistic scenarios. This potential is constrained …, however, by the relatively underdeveloped marketing system. A few large state enterprises have access to capital and export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996582
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Tell me where it hurts, an' I'll tell you who to call
Diao, Xinshen; Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Robinson, Sherman; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
productivity—the focal results cited above include this impact. Effects are distinguished between elimination of subsidies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996590
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¿Cuánto ayudará la liberalización comercial a los pobres?: Comparación de modelos globales de comercio
Bouet, Antoine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"La comunidad mundial y las instituciones internacionales han dado una alta prioridad al desarrollo y el alivio de la pobreza. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio, establecidos por Naciones Unidas para el 2015, hacen un llamado para reducir en un 50% el número de personas que viven con...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996776
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How much will trade liberalization help the poor?: comparing global trade models
Bouet, Antoine - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Trade liberalization is expected to act positively on development and poverty reduction... The traditional argument in favor of a positive relationship between liberalization and poverty reduction focuses on... [key] linkages. A large proportion of poor people work in the agricultural sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996798