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"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … prices. They then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …
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prices that are two to three times the world market price. Without these preferences, sugar export revenues would decline …"Sugar exporters of the Caribbean depend on preferential sales of sugar to the European Union and United States at … significantly. These preferences are likely to erode in the next several years as the sugar programs of both the European Union and …
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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … that increased import competition from less advanced economies is the major cause for the positive impact on quality …
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, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special … agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis … useful, the special agricultural safeguard should do more than provide formulas for import restrictions. It should provide …
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"This paper examines the effects of inflation targeting on industrial and emerging economies' output growth over the "globalization years" of 1986-2004. Controlling for trade openness and two indicators of financial globalization, the authors find systematic positive and significant effects of...
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"Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if...
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-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …
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thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …
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