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countries have distorted rice trade. This study estimates the impact of rice policy distortions on developing countries' rice … production and trade potential. Because rice markets are highly segmented, major rice types are differentiated to estimate the … trade would also be affected by a reduction of the high over-quota tariff." from Authors' Abstract …
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Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is a top priority on the global agenda for sustainable and inclusive development. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the world’s poor and malnourished people live. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high...
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of trade. By increasing the cost of external finance, a financial shock increases the financial cost of exporting and … reduces firms’ production capacities and exports (intensive margin). By making it more difficult to engage in a (highly …
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The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies....
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We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee producer, over the period 2003 to 2013. We find an evolving policy environment leading to structural changes in the export sector, including an elimination of vertical...
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We use firm-level data from the World Bank’s Regional Program on Enterprise Development, covering Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania for 1991–2003. Econometric results confirm well-known relationships, such as a positive association between export intensity and TFP, which implies...
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We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee producer, over the period 2003 to 2013. We find an evolving policy environment that leads to structural changes in the export sector, including an elimi-nation of vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132776
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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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 …
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transform its domestic rice sector and become more competitive with imports in order to ultimately displace them over time … imports in the short and medium term. This is especially true so long local varieties cannot compete on quality and post …
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