volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author … negative effect on agricultural trade-policy volatility. The author find that the World Trade Organization (WTO) agricultural …

-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …

With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …

High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade …

This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of … (given that farm incomes are well below non-farm incomes in most developing countries and that agriculture there is intensive …