impact of current and likely policy reforms. Analysis in long-grain, high-quality rice focuses on rice import and export …"High production and export subsidies in developed countries and high protection in both developed and developing … markets in Latin America and shows that reduction of direct and implicit export subsidies in the US will benefit regional …

of origin and assesses the structural adjustment in demand as indicated by the increase in imports from Sri Lanka since … the tsunami in December 2004. The primary objective of this research is to assess how Sri Lanka’s fish exports affected … fish exports from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda (Lake Victoria region). Although the results show no significant price …

transform its domestic rice sector and become more competitive with imports in order to ultimately displace them over time …. Preliminary results show that import restrictions alone will not be effective at achieving self-sufficiency in rice production … imports in the short and medium term. This is especially true so long local varieties cannot compete on quality and post …

imports of wheat. From July 2005 to March 2007, private sector wheat imports were profitable and domestic wheat prices closely … tracked import parity prices. Then, from April 2007 to May 2008, good domestic harvests coincided with increase international … wheat prices, so private sector wheat imports were no longer profitable. Most recently, rationing of foreign exchange for …

Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports …. Government imports and subsidized sales to millers and households in late 2008, subsequently increased domestic supply and … lowered market wheat prices, though market prices remained above import parity levels. Allowing the private sector access to …

The goal of this paper is to examine how financial constraints affect firms’ decisions to export when the mode of … resort to external funders to finance fixed export costs and investments in production capacities. We assume that sectors … that less financially vulnerable sectors are more likely to export. On the one hand, a high level of financial health …