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The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access
Anderson, Kym - 2015
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, the authors first compare the OECD and...
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Ethiopia
Rashid, Shahidur - 2017
, examine the trends in growth and structural changes across sectors and within agriculture, catalog the changes in agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966141
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Political Institutions, Inequality, and Agricultural Growth : The Public Expenditure Connection
Lederman, Daniel - 2016
This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth. Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748040
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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many trade agreements, agriculture posed difficult political hurdles, which … agriculture sector. An applied general equilibrium framework is used to provide estimates of what including agriculture under the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972648
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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym - 2017
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
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A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of a Ukraine-Eu Free Trade Agreement on Agriculture
von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2017
Agriculture including food products is of particular interest for Ukraine. However, in free trade agreements involving … the European Union, agriculture is always given special treatment and subject to less and slower liberalization than other … accession affects agriculture in Ukraine, and how potential bilateral tariff cuts may interact with potential productivity gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976599
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Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Country Farmers?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
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Allocative Inefficiencies Resulting from Subsidies to Agricultural Electricity Use : An Illustrative Model
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper provides an analytical discussion of several interconnected resource allocation problems from under-pricing of electricity used by farmers for groundwater extraction. In these situations, groundwater extraction is inefficiently high even without electricity under-pricing. Moreover,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975486
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Food Insecurity and Public Agricultural Spending in Bolivia : Putting Money Where Your Mouth is?
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper explores the reduction of food insecurity in Bolivia, adopting a supply side approach that analyzes the role of agricultural spending on vulnerability. Vulnerability to food insecurity is captured by a municipal level composite -- developed locally within the framework of World Food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976088
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Decentralized Beneficiary Targeting in Large-Scale Development Programs : Insights from the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Program
Kilic, Talip - 2020
This paper contributes to the long-standing debate on the merits of decentralized beneficiary targeting in the administration of development programs, focusing on the large-scale Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Program. Nationally-representative household survey data are used to systematically analyze...
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