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"This paper accomplishes two objectives. First, it provides simulation results from a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that have helped focus the debate about the potential effects of agricultural trade liberalization on developing countries. The aggregate numbers show modest net...
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The World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward … countries to fully understand the issues involved in the negotiations on agriculture. However, there has been no authoritative … of the provisions of the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture and the modalities of the negotiations. It examines the …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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negotiations, given scores of distortions that plague the world dairy markets? What sort of domestic reforms are required in the …From chronic shortages of milk, India has emerged today as the largest producer of milk in the world crossing 80 … million tonnes. This has been achieved largely through a smallholder economy in which "Operation Flood", one of the world …
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"This paper is a description and an analysis of trade liberalization under CAFTA. It shows that in the short run the impact of the agreement is likely to be small... Since the U.S. already grants tariff-free access under the CBI, trade liberalization in the CAFTA treaty appears to be asymmetric,...
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world markets. Recent policy changes to promote internal trade liberalization and competition between central and provincial …
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"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...
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lead to higher world agricultural prices and raise activity and remuneration in this sector in developing countries. The … affects world prices. Third, liberalization can impose adjustment costs and raise short-run risk owing to competition from …
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