uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat market to investigate the effects of policy makers implementing … percent in some regions, with world wheat trade falling by 4.7 percent. The price measures discriminate against low price …The Special Safeguard Mechanism was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the World Trade …

an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this …

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 … estimates of agricultural distortions to assess its contribution to the price spikes in 1972-74 and 2006-08 for rice and wheat …

This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique …

unmanageable stock accumulation. Based on a rational expectations storage model representing the Indian wheat market and its … relation to the rest of the world, this paper analyzes the cost and welfare implications of this policy and unpacks the …

This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices -- during the 2007/08 global food crisis -- on food security … demand in the face of price increases (Giffen good properties) for wheat products in urban areas. This study improves on … global food crisis in one of the world's poorest, most food-insecure countries …

purchase and sales prices of commodities are a type of state trading enterprise that is subject to World Trade Organization … did not require the Canadian Wheat Board to do so. The panel and Appellate Body found that the primary discipline of the … discrimination is observed in the case of Canadian wheat exports, there are economic arguments why this might also be pursued by a …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …