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Lobbying and agricultural trade policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore S. - 2006
"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
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Global agricultural trade and developing countries
Beghin, John Christopher (contributor);  … - 2005
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Trade and Foreign Exchange Policies in Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications and Impact on the Poor
World Bank - 2013
Iran's economic performance in the last two decades has been very disappointing. This is highlighted by the fact that per capita GDP was 16 percent lower in 1998 than in 1979. However, the most important single reason for this poor performance was not any domestic economic policy, but the long...
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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?
Calderón, César - 2009
exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394190
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Regional Trade in Food Staples : Prospects for Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Moderation Food Security Crises in Eastern and Southern Africa
World Bank - 2012
concentrates on the regions two most important food staples, maize and cassava. Given the volatility of the region's rainfed maize …
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Brazil: a review of agricultural policies
Levy, Fred (contributor) - 1983 - 2. print
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Global income distribution and poverty in the absence of agricultural distortions
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2009
"This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agriculture trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that liberalization of agriculture and food could increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394143
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A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform
Finger, J. M. - 2009
"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization provides useful information about how a special agricultural safeguard might be made effective. The success of existing safeguard or flexibility provisions to sustain...
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Agriculture and development
Pleskovic, Boris (contributor);  … - Berlin Workshop <(9th:2006)> - 2008
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Do global trade distortions still harm developing country farmers ?
Anderson, Kym - 2006
"The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
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