of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …