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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 … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …
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Where is the Value in the Chain? : Pathways out of Plastic Pollution
World Bank - 2022
Plastics have been a development driver for decades but have turned into a development problem due to their omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments and the private sector alike in the past few years....
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Establishing a Green Charcoal Value Chain in Rwanda : A Feasibility Study
World Bank - 2014
Biomass is the most important source of energy in Rwanda, especially for domestic cooking. Today approximately 86 percent of primary energy comes from biomass, mainly in the form of wood that is either used directly as a fuel (57 percent), or converted into charcoal (23 percent) together with...
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Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains
Farole, Thomas - 2014
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How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?
Lloyd, Peter John - 2009
"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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394158
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Distortions to world trade : impacts on agricultural markets and farm incomes
Anderson, Kym - 2005
Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results … food importers or are enjoying preferential access to agricultural markets of high-income countries. "--World Bank web site …
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U.S. contingent protection against honey imports : development aspects and the Doha Round
Nogués, Julio J. - 2003
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Global Supply Chain Disruptions : Competition Policy Implications
World Bank - 2022
This note complements prior World Bank work analyzing the technical drivers of supply chain disruptions from 2021 …
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Multipolarity : the new global economy
2011
By 2025, six major emerging economies--Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Russia--will account for more than half of all global growth, and the international monetary system will no longer be dominated by a single currency. As economic power shifts, these successful economies will...
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Visual guide to the world's greatest challenges
World Bank - 2011 - Third edition 2011
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