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Special Agricultural Safeguards : Virtual Benefits and Real Costs-Lessons for the Doha Round
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2005
paper argues that, in violation of the spirit of the WTO Agreement in Agriculture, the special agricultural safeguards have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400731
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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture : A Gravity Approach
Paiva, Claudio - 2005
support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401036
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China : International Trade and WTO Accession
Blancher, Nicolas R. - 2004
. Tariff reforms have been implemented in China since the 1980s; and, with its recent WTO accession, China has committed itself …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404079
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Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change : a cross-country analysis
Kahn, Matthew E.; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; … - 2019
We study the long-term impact of climate change on economic activity across countries, using a stochastic growth model where labor productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables-defined as deviations of temperature and precipitation from their historical norms. Using a panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112126
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Individual treatment effects of budget balance rules
Caselli, Francesca; Stoehlker, Daniel; Wingender, Philippe - 2020
This paper investigates the heterogenous effects of budget balance rules on fiscal policy in a large sample of countries. To derive country-specific treatment effects of fiscal rules and conduct inference, we use a Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Method. Our results indicate that countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485989
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Machine learning and causality : the impact of financial crises on growth
Tiffin, Andrew - 2019
Machine learning tools are well known for their success in prediction. But prediction is not causation, and causal discovery is at the core of most questions concerning economic policy. Recently, however, the literature has focused more on issues of causality. This paper gently introduces some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154563
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Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016
This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436763
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The agricultural exodus in the Philippines : are wage differentials driving the process?
Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Li, Yiliang - 2021
Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796816
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Crop selection and international differences in aggregate agricultural productivity
Alvarez, Jorge A.; Berg, Claudia - 2019
A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103617
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Importing inputs for climate change mitigation : the case of agricultural productivity
García-Verdú, Rodrigo; Meyer Cirkel, Alexis; … - 2019
This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported...
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