the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …

For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as …

The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural … world's population, farmers, agricultural output and total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85 … NRAs by showing two sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set for various regions of the world, the other for …

countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins … the viewpoint of global trade or welfare restrictiveness. This analysis draws on the theory outlined in the previous …