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of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal …
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In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....
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.5 million used cars have been exported from the United States to Mexico. Using a unique, vehicle-level dataset, we find that … traded vehicles are dirtier than the stock of vehicles in the United States and cleaner than the stock in Mexico, so trade …
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This paper considers the likely effect on the automobile industry of a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico …. As there are currently large restrictions on imports into Mexico, one important outcome of a free trade agreement would …
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This paper analyzes the relation between exogenous changes in commodity export prices and the real exchange rate in a monetary economy. The traditional Dutch?Disease case is extended, and the monetary consequences of an export boom are explored. It is shown that commodity export booms can...
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coffee price changes, with more observers emphasizing the consequences of coffee price changes on money creation and … inflation. The results obtained indicate that coffee price changes have indeed been closely related to money creation and … inflation. Also, coffee price changes have been negatively related to the rate of devaluation of the crawling peg. These results …
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-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the …
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commodities that were in high demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) between 1891 and 1930 ended up having higher revenues per capita …
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We examine the effects of Fair Trade (FT) certification of coffee on producers and households in Costa Rica. Examining … the production dynamics of the universe of Costa Rican coffee mills from 1999-2014, we find that FT certification is … associated with a higher sales price, greater sales, and more revenues. As expected, these effects are greater when global coffee …
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support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions … light on why the United States supported (or failed to support) international commodity agreements for coffee, sugar, and …
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