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"Fairtrade??? and Market Failures in Agricultural Commodity Markets

Ronchi, Loraine - 2012

This paper concerns an NGO intervention in agricultural commodity markets known as Fairtrade. Fairtrade pays producers a minimum unit price and provides capacity building support to member cooperative organizations. Fairtrade's organizational capacity support targets those factors believed to...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2016

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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Trade Policy Instruments over Time

Bown, Chad P. - 2014

Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …

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Trade and Civil Conflict : Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence

Cali, Massimiliano; Mulabdic, Alen - 2014

This paper revisits and expands the evidence on the impact of trade shocks on intra-state conflict with a large sample of developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. The results suggest that increases in the prices of a country's exported commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict...

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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Winters, Leonard Alan - 2012

subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …

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Economic Development, Competition Policy, and the World Trade Organization

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2002

At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of … negotiations on disciplines relating to competition based on explicit consensus on modalities to be agreed at the fifth WTO …

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How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor Countries? From Aid to Insurance

Saldanha, Fernando M.; Dobronogov, Anton; Gelb, Alan - 2014

Natural resources are being discovered in more countries, both rich and poor. Many of the new and aspiring resource exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign aid. Resource discoveries open up enormous opportunities, but also expose producing...

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Commodity Market Reform in Africa : Some Recent Experience

Akiyama, Takamasa; Baffes, John; Larson, Donald F.; … - 2003

Since the early 1980s, dramatic changes in export commodity markets, shocks associated with resulting price declines, and changing views on the role of the state have ushered in widespread reforms to agricultural commodity markets in Africa. The reforms significantly reduced government...

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International Migration and the Global Economic Order : An Interview

Solimano, Andres - 2001

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Advances in Negotiation Theory : Bargaining, Coalitions, and Fairness

Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2012

). What factors determine the outcomes of such negotiations? What strategies can help reach an agreement? How should the … focusing on a noncooperative approach to negotiations, which is particularly relevant for the study of international … negotiations. By reviewing noncooperative bargaining theory, noncooperative coalition theory, and the theory of fair division, they …

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