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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym - 2013

during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …

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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries

Gouel, Christophe - 2013

When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...

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On Uniform Import Tariffs in Developing Countries

Edwards, Sebastian - 1990

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically assess, from a welfare perspective, the desirability of uniform import tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have contemplated a trade liberalization process that would...

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018

The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...

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Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775

Mancall, Peter - 2008

two time series to serve as indicators of broader changes rather than considering the export sector as a whole. Here we … present new comprehensive export measures for the middle colonies. We find that aggregate exports in constant prices grew very … trade increased the colonists' ability to buy imports over time, especially after 1740. Although the export sector performed …

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Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910

Meissner, Christopher M. - 2017

that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …-level characteristics interacting with destination-specific characteristics. We confirm that export growth for "new" products was stronger …

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Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade : a Tale of Two Countries

Ready, Robert - 2013

Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...

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