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What's Left for the WTO?
Bown, Chad P. - 2015
Suppose that when addressing the question of "what's left for the WTO?," tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda … applied tariffs remain "too high"; the implication being that the WTO's job performance to date is incomplete. This includes … applied tariffs for countries that are not members of the WTO, applied MFN tariffs for WTO members that are unbound, and …
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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...
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Agricultural Market Insurance Development : Policy Note - Brazil
Arias, Diego - 2017
Over the last decades, the government of Brazil has developed a risk management strategy with the goal of reducing the volatility of cash flow in the agricultural sector and the vulnerability of the less privileged stakeholders in the rural areas (that is, family farmers). Setting up a...
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model
Anderson, Kym - 2009
This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price...
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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas too Ambitious for Success?
Laborde, David - 2015
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Policy and Performance in Customs : Evaluating the Trade Facilitation Agreement
Hillberry, Russell - 2015
The 2013 World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali produced a comprehensive framework agreement on trade facilitation. If fully implemented, the agreement should increase the speed and reduce the cost of moving goods across international borders. But which reforms are most likely to improve...
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Trade wars : what do they mean? : why are they happening now? : what are the costs?
Mattoo, Aaditya; Staiger, Robert W. - 2019
How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? This paper offers an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that typically offered by economic commentators. More...
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Taking another look at policy research on China's accession to the World Trade Organization
Ianchovichina, Elena; Martin, Will - 2019
Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China in the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms created the preconditions for accession and strongly influenced its outcomes. The preeminence of processing trade at the time of accession...
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019
World Bank Group - 2019
Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic processes that affect farmers in 101 countries. The study covers eight thematic areas: supplying seed, registering fertilizer, securing water, registering machinery, sustaining...
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