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Doha is very small and generates biased effects against agriculture. The impact of Philippine trade reform within the Doha … impact of a free world trade economy is favorable in terms of higher export prices and export demand for agriculture and … agriculture-related manufacturing industries. This mitigates the biased effects against agriculture, and is therefore favorable to …
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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing … scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of Southern African Agriculture and Climate … consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national …
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. A clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development … partners to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural …
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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been recognized as one of the reasons for the increased intensity of …. Since agriculture is the main activity of rural people in many endemic areas, it has been suggested that effective malaria … control measures can be devised if attention was paid to the two-way effects of agriculture and malaria. There is the need to …
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"The rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can … contribute to developing-country agriculture. While scientific and technological changes in agriculture can help foster … which they are a part. A more systems-oriented understanding of how innovation occurs in a society and economy is critical …
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Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple countries and commodities with much more detailed...
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poverty and income distribution implications of trade reform that is focused on agriculture and major food items (rice, corn … possible policy shifts. The simulation results indicate that trade reform in agriculture and major food items will have … economy. The share of agriculture in the total gross domestic product has declined. The country has switched from being a net …
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"In this brief, we evaluate the effects of a possible Doha agreement based on proposals currently on the table from the United States, the European Union, and the Group of Twenty (G20)....[The brief presents] two development-oriented alternatives...which demonstrate that more can be accomplished...
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"The benefits least-developed countries (LDCs) can draw from a multilateral trade reform as designed by the modalities made public in May 2008 are negligible, and some countries will even face adverse effects. World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiators should make a supplementary effort in favor...
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