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

percent). Since the impact of convergence on the supply side is much more muted, convergence puts upward pressure on world … food prices, partially offsetting a baseline trend toward falling world food prices to 2050 …

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

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …

This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …