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in promoting reform and mobilizing assistance, but substantial effort is still needed to translate notional benefits into …
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This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in …
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This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first …Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …
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This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States. A series of simulations is conducted assuming 100 percent ad valorem equivalent tariff cuts for goods and 50 percent cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be...
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, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low …
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Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines four changes that reduce this dependence: (i) accumulation of capital and skills; (ii) changes in protection policy, particularly reductions in the burden of protection on exporters; (iii) differential...
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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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Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results …
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