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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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also suggest that full global liberalization of merchandise trade would raise value added in agriculture in developing …
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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 …
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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 …
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The purpose of this paper is to benchmark Tunisia against other emerging economies in terms of the regulatory barriers … manufacturing tariffs, but roughly one-tenth the gains from full bilateral reform of border protection in agriculture with the … win-win outcomes and even fewer adjustment costs. By contrast, the gains in agriculture and manufacturing tend to come at …
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vice-versa. Defining two extreme factor market scenarios over Morocco and Tunisia, the author finds that the welfare gains …
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This paper is the first in a series of studies to provide background data and protection and incentive indicators for 13 major Indian crops, which have been estimated in connection with extensive research on Indian agricultural incentives. The general methodology of the studies is described in...
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, examine the trends in growth and structural changes across sectors and within agriculture, catalog the changes in agricultural …
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Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing …
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Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
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