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A landmark achievement of the Uruguay Round, and notably, the Agreement on Agriculture, was the full inclusion of … agriculture in multilateral rules and disciplines. Since the birth of World Trade Organization (WTO), a significant number of … member countries have used the dispute settlement mechanism (DSM) for resolving the disputes in agriculture. The DSM has …
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of Myanmar's agricultural export performance against its competitors in different regions and determine the policy actions for improving Myanmar's export performance. The normalized revealed comparative advantage (NRCA) index is computed to...
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Agriculture (AoA). The AoA was implemented in 1995 and brought substantial discipline to the areas of market access, domestic …
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This paper analyzes the principal features of agro-processing and horticultural exports from SSA and explores policy alternatives based on simulation analyses. We first provide a conceptual section focusing on changing patterns of processing and exports (section 2). We then examine how the...
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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique challenge to governments across the globe, reinforcing the need to improve understanding of domestic and international trade trends to provide more informed options for policy response. During the last several months, IFPRI has been...
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Organization (WTO) negotiations and we show that including agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda talks is important both … economically and politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture … of the cost of distortions to global merchandise trade. Within agriculture, most of the costs appear to arise from trade …
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This paper analyzes the implication of economic structural change and dietary transformation on changing patterns of agri-food trade among 17 Asian development countries. Sub-regional trade in Central, South, and Southeast Asia is the focus of the paper, along with trade with other partners...
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China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been the focus of both admiration and, increasingly, concern, but China is also a large importer of goods, particularly agricultural products. Since China's accession to the WTO,...
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relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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