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Poverty Impacts of the Volume-Based Special Safeguard Mechanism

Ivanic, Maros - 2017

simulations for 31 countries suggest that use of this safeguard in line with the proposed World Trade Organization rules would … raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …

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Agricultural Trade : What Matters in the Doha Round?

Laborde, David - 2017

This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture accounts for less than 10 percent of merchandise trade, high and...

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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

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Potential Implications of a Special Safeguard Mechanism in the WTO : The Case of Wheat

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

The Special Safeguard Mechanism was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the World Trade … uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat market to investigate the effects of policy makers implementing … percent in some regions, with world wheat trade falling by 4.7 percent. The price measures discriminate against low 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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Implications of the Doha Market Access Proposals for Developing Countries

Laborde, David - 2017

This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization …

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Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations : Sensitive Agricultural Products in the Wto's Doha Agenda

Jean, Sebastien - 2017

Many trade negotiations involve large cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities allowing much smaller cuts for an agreed number of politically-sensitive products. The effects of these flexibilities on market access opportunities are difficult to predict, creating particular problems for...

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...

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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012

The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...

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