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Global distortions to agricultural markets : new indicators of trade and welfare impacts, 1955 to 2007

Lloyd, Peter John - 2009

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions can be poor guides to the policies' economic effects. Recent theoretical literature provides indicators of trade and welfare-reducing effects of...

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The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access

Anderson, Kym - 2006

"The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...

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Disciplining agricultural support through decoupling

Baffes, John - 2005

"Agricultural protection, particularly in high income countries, have induced overproduction, thereby depressing world commodity prices and reducing export shares of countries which do not support agriculture. One-and perhaps the only-effective way to bring a socially acceptable and politically...

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Global agricultural trade and developing countries

Beghin, John Christopher (contributor); … - 2005

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Agriculture in the Doha Agenda

Messerlin, Patrick A. - 2003

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Food in the 21st century : from science to sustainable agriculture

Shah, Mahendra M. - 2000

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World Development Report 2008 : Agriculture for Development

World Bank - 2012

The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP...

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Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets : Policy Responses

FAO - 2011

The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...

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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach

Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009

"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

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Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns

Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

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