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"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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The agriculture and agri-food sector is a substantial driver of Moldova's international trade and export … Moldova's agriculture sector, and synthesize relevant research on drivers and recommendations on improving agricultural …'s agriculture sector and its export competitiveness, synthesizes the findings, and presents recommendations. In order for …
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This report focuses on growing trade in food staples in the Southern and Eastern African region of Africa as one of the largest growth opportunities available to African farmers. This paper examines the impact of regional trade in food staples, both for maintaining farmer incentives in surplus...
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This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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Petchaboon District of the Petchaboon province in Thailand. The next section illustrates the importance of flood risk in … agriculture and challenges in providing flood insurance. The following section describes the flood index insurance concept and … Thailand, and the final section synthesizes lessons learned and recommends areas for future research and applications. Finally …
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"This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agriculture trade distortions using a newly developed … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …
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"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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"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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"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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