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industries in all parts of the world, but also for the rest of the world economy. An assessment of agricultural and trade policy … of the present state of applied modelling in the area of trade and agricultural policies. We provide in this paper a …
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There have been important changes in the international trade of processed and high-value added food products from …, and explores possible reasons for the trends, focusing on trade policies in less-developed countries (LDCs) and developed … countries (DCs). The paper argues that national trade policies and other economic policies appear to have been relatively …
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abundant factor. Latin American agricultural trade is consistent with both models. The paper then shows that Latin American … agricultural trade is primarily explained by country differences in relative factor abundance between countries rather than …
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special case. The Armington and generalized Armington trade models are applied to the Japanese meat import demand to …
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Conventional estimates of the economic return to agricultural research use market prices for the values of products and inputs; on this basis, economic rates of return are typically well above the cost of capital, suggesting that more investment in research would be socially desirable. But these...
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specifies, demand, supply and trade relationships. The policy preference function is specified as a quadratic and a 'revealed … targets. The resulting optimal control problem is minimised by a dynamic programming routine. The results suggest that policy … makers may benefit from taking dynamic effects directly into account when formulating policy strategies. …
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This paper investigates the impact of China's and Taiwan's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on U.S. and … world agricultural trade by means of a 12-region, 14-sector Computable General Equilibrium model for world trade and …-intensive manufactured goods, thus further improving industrial countries' terms of trade. The expansion of labor-intensive sectors in China …
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Impacts of agricultural and nonagricultural trade liberalization on agriculture are assessed in a multi …) relative price changes between sectors, and (b) income and exchange-rate adjustments that follow trade liberalization in a … agricultural and total production when exchange rates vary. Moreover, the gains from international trade are extended to all …
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This paper examines whether developing countries, as a group, would be better off in the absence of agricultural protection in the industrial North and, if so, whether they should support reforms negotiated between the major players in the Uruguay Round. Results from the Tyers-Anderson GLS model...
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affecting trade flows of meat. This study demonstrates that the gravity model for a single agricultural commodity can be … that trade policies and subsidies used by exporting and importing countries, livestock production capacity in countries …, and distances play an important role in determining trade flows of meat. Long-term agreements achieve the highest …
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