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"The authors provide estimates of the impact that removing all merchandise trade distortions (including agricultural subsidies) would have on food and agricultural production, trade, and incomes. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's...
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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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"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural...
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"Anderson offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links...
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"Vietnam's integration with the international economy has increased significantly over the past decade, aided by … dramatic shift in Vietnam's trading patterns has important implications for the environment and use of natural resources. This … Vietnam's joining of the World Trade Organization. "--World Bank web site …
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and international market integration in Vietnam's rice sector and fertilizer market between 1993 and 1998, a period of … effects of opening the rice and fertilizer market are isolated, Vietnam's agricultural trade reforms did not contribute to a …
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, at which Vietnam's Prime Minister, Phạm Minh Chính, pledged once again that Vietnam would be part of the global climate … reach net zero emissions by 2050. Trade can be a central part of the solution to climate change Vietnam is experiencing and … goods can help Vietnam achieve not only its climate commitments but also its development ambition to become a high …
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The issue of regional differences in development has moved to the center of the development debate in Sri Lanka, partly after the release of regional poverty data. For the past many years, there have been significant and increasing differences between the Western province and the rest of the...
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With eight in ten of its people living in rural areas, Burkina Faso is one of the most rural countries in the world. Welfare has been improving for Burkina Faso's rural households, but slowly, and faster income growth is needed for more robust progress. To determine how people in Burkina Faso's...
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