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Trade Barrier Volatility and Domestic Price Stabilization : Evidence from Agriculture

Anderson, Kym - 2017

-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

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Changing Contributions of Different Agricultural Policy Instruments to Global Reductions in Trade and Welfare

Croser, Johanna L. - 2017

Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...

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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym - 2017

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...

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How Do Governments Respond to Food Price Spikes? Lessons from the Past

Anderson, Kym - 2017

trade between nations can play in bringing stability to the world?s food markets. More effort appears to be needed before a …

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The World Trade Organization's Doha Cotton Initiative : A Tale of Two Issues

Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2016

Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton …

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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects

Anderson, Kym - 2016

Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …

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The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access

Anderson, Kym - 2015

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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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis

Jensen, Hans Grinsted - 2017

results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …

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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym - 2017

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...

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