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Population Census 2014. Second, the impact of the subsidy reforms is estimated by applying the price changes due to the reform to …
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Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy …
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Maize is the most important staple food in the Eastern Africa region and the most widely traded agricultural commodity … factors behind the marketing costs for maize in East African countries. While a number of studies have recognized major …
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. In shortage years, governments may question the capacity of the private sector to import maize, and thus arrange imports … stylized model of the Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between the current government policy of …
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. Zambia has a long history of import and export restrictions of agricultural commodities, maize in particular. This analytical … estimates at US$97 million the annual gain of open borders for maize exports over the next decade, compared to a scenario of … continued trade restrictions. Producer losses from maize trade restrictions between 2023 and 2030 are projected to amount to …
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. Zambia has a long history of import and export restrictions of agricultural commodities, maize in particular. This analytical … estimates at US$97 million the annual gain of open borders for maize exports over the next decade, compared to a scenario of … continued trade restrictions. Producer losses from maize trade restrictions between 2023 and 2030 are projected to amount to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545128
"This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...
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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 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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"Agricultural protection, particularly in high income countries, have induced overproduction, thereby depressing world commodity prices and reducing export shares of countries which do not support agriculture. One-and perhaps the only-effective way to bring a socially acceptable and politically...
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