trade policies to economic welfare of different groups in developing countries"--World Bank web site …

"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial … understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To … this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide traders was conducted with questions on the pesticides in stock …

pesticide use or handling, and over 87 percent openly admitting to using little or no protective measures while applying … pesticides, overuse is potentially a threatening problem to farmer health as well as the environment. To model pesticide overuse …, the authors used a 3-equation, trivariate probit framework, with health effects and misperception of pesticide risk as …

"In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in … negative externalities, and suggest that future research on pesticide-related damage should include information on local water …

European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Their results show that when firms … of GM crops may be sufficient to explain the trans-Atlantic difference in GM policies. On the one hand, farmers in a … producers in the European Union (whose relatively small farms would enjoy less gains from the new biotechnology than broad …

"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …, cross-country empirical analysis shows that economywide saving and investment in China are higher than what would be … saving is the result of policies particular to China. Looking ahead, the econometric results suggest that purely on the basis …

"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries … several policy debates. Key findings include: (1) investment by enterprises distinguishes China from other countries and …-to shed light on the factors driving high investment and on how saving is channeled into investment. The findings inform …

Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and model. The results suggest that by following the lead of China and South Africa …