reduce grain PHL in SSA over the last 30 years and from experts in the field. These experts were identified and asked to …

The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … support policies in the developed countries. However, large 'buffer' or 'intervention' stocks, as the grain accumulations in … practitioners, revisits the issues and evidence concerning grain stocks. It starts with an open mind concerning stocks as policy …

impact all traders similarly. Studies by the World Bank, for example, found that men and women traders often face different …- specific associations. This study in Tajikistan explored a range of topics, primarily within the scope of the World Trade … crossings in the country. The work was built upon a similar methodology developed and used in other surveys by the World Bank …

"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … crucially on the extent to which high-income countries are willing to lower domestic support to their cotton farmers. "--World …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …

improvements. "--World Bank web site …

on a data set recently compiled by the World Bank with specific quantitative metrics of logistics performance in terms of … progress. "--World Bank web site …