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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited
Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will - 2012
Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. Especially in developing...
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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Hertel, Thomas W.; Keeney, Roman; Ivanic, Maros - 2012
Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553878
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554047
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Liberalizing Trade in Agriculture : Developing Countries in Asia and the Post-Doha Agenda
Wilson, John S. - 2013
The author provides an overview and data relevant to the interests of developing countries as they engage in continuing agricultural trade negotiations set forth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He examines country performance in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559566
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Industrial Competitiveness of the Auto Parts Industries in Four Large Asian Countries : The Role of Government Policy in a Challenging International Environment
Doner, Richard F.; Noble, Gregory W.; Ravenhill, John - 2012
and liberalization of regional and global trade to create significant parts industries in China, Indonesia, and the … Indonesia has yet to move from extensive to intensive growth. These anomalies suggest that to explain success in the auto parts … weaknesses continue to constrain development opportunities in Indonesia. …
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The Social Impact of a WTO Agreement in Indonesia
Robilliard, Anne-Sophie; Robinson, Sherman - 2012
Indonesia experienced rapid growth and the expansion of the formal financial sector during the last quarter of the 20th … nevertheless a critical challenge for Indonesia with over 110 million people (53 percent of the population) living on less than $2 … further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an …
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia Since World War II
Anderson, Kym; Lloyd, Peter; MacLaren, Donald - 2012
Australia's lackluster economic growth performance in the first four decades following World War II was in part due to an anti-trade, anti-primary sector bias in government assistance policies. This paper provides new annual estimates of the extent of those biases since 1946 and their gradual...
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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
Balat, Jorge; Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido - 2012
This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher...
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Agro-Manufactured Export Prices, Wages and Unemployment
Porto, Guido - 2012
This paper estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages, employment and unemployment in Argentina, a country with positive net agricultural exports and high unemployment rates. In the estimation of these wage and unemployment responses, the empirical model allows for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552276
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Non-Traditional Crops, Traditional Constraints : The Adoption and Diffusion of Export Crops Among Guatemalan Smallholders
Carletto, Calogero; Kirk, Angeli; Winters, Paul - 2012
This paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning more than 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala. The analysis explores how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of non-traditional...
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