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While barriers to trade in most goods and some services including capital flows have been reduced considerably over the past two decades, many remain. Such policies harm most the economies imposing them, but the worst of the merchandise barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly...
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trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of … poverty with respect to income, this provides an estimate of the change in poverty by country. Under most liberalization …
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The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase producer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields, while the next generation of GM food research is focusing on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers. Golden Rice, for example, has been...
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to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …
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