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Trade, Standards, and the Political Economy of Genetically Modified Food
Anderson, Kym; Damania, Richard; Jackson, Lee Ann - 2013
A common-agency lobbying model is developed to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policy makers to influence standards and consumers and...
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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What???s at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553673
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The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2012
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...
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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls and Prospects
Anderson, Kym - 2012
Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553911
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Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - 2012
Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554047
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Global Impacts of the Doha Scenarios on Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, William J.; van der Mensbrugghe, … - 2012
The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554190
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Distortions to World Trade : Impacts on Agricultural Markets and Farm Incomes
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012
Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554191
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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - 2013
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559465
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The Challenge of Reducing Subsidies and Trade Barriers
Anderson, Kym - 2013
This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. The author argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559844