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Restricting cross-border trade through export bans in an attempt to stabilize domestic prices has been a particularly popular policy tool used by many sub-Saharan countries in recent years. However, little is known about how the variability in harvests and seasonality - two critical dimensions...
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binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs-what is also … known as tariffs' water. The results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to exports and its effects … current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …
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developing and emerging countries over several years, merged with destination-product-specific information on tariffs and non … isomorphic to that of tariffs: the observed pricing-to-market behavior suggests that, although tariffs reduce the market power of …
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"The increase in the international price of rice is likely to have substantial negative impacts on the poor in countries such as Mali which are net importers of rice. This paper relies on a dynamic CGE model to estimate the likely impact of the recent increase in rice prices on poverty with and...
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