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The general perception is that high food prices in India have increased poverty and that trade reforms will further … without trade reform, using price and income effects for 32 representative households computed from a global economic model … opportunities for poverty alleviation. Global trade reform reinforces this effect for all rural population groups. An increase in …
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In the wake of the 2008 food crisis, prices of food staples in Senegal rose, with a new wave driven by international price shocks and a decline in productivity; these effects caused sub-optimal performance in the agricultural sector. This paper attempts to identify the implications of these...
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the transmission of the growth from the North to the South through international markets, both through trade and through … studying the relationship between international terms of trade and domestic income distributions of the exporting countries …
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The core issue raised in Globalization and its Discontents, what is the critical evaluation of the IMF's role in the …
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environment facing the developing countries and, in particular, the issues of export-led strategies and North-South trade in … armaments. Third, the pricing of exhaustible resources, including oil, as a major issue in North-South trade, and in the …
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of Chile’s social protection’s monetary subsidies on vulnerability to poverty during 1996-2006. Using the National Socioeconomic Characterization panel survey data, we adopt the Chaudhuri et al. (2002) method to estimate vulnerability. Since...
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degree of regulation is necessary to reach a "sustainable free trade." The technological aspect of globalization is so … and 19% of the technically usable hydroelectric Power. Regarding economic globalization, the general argument from the … environmental point of view is not that international trade is negative and that autarchy is desirable, but rather that a certain …
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This paper describes the socio-economic adjustment effects exerted by globalization (taking as starting points … government tasks in a globalized economy remain: remedying information asymmetries between buyers and sellers, regulating markets …
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international trade. Nationalistic sentiments respond to economic interests, and in particular they vary according to the relative …
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On the cusp of the millennium and as the century that was supposed to belong to Canada draws to a close, we find ourselves as a medium-sized nation exercising an influence out of all proportion to our size. This special issue on Canada in the Global Economy gives us a chance to sum up where we...
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