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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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Impact of Free Trade Agreement Use on Import Prices

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - 2018

This paper examines the impact of free trade agreement (FTA) use on import prices. For this analysis, it employs establishment-level import data with information on tariff schemes, that is, the FTA and most-favored-nation schemes used for importing. Unlike previous studies, this paper estimates...

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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Espitia, Alvaro - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

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Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

Zant, Wouter - 2017

This paper measures the impact of low-cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets by exploiting the quasi-experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic transport by rail in January 2003 due to the destruction of a railway...

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Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture : Methodology, Background Statistics, and Protection and Incentive Indicators, 1965-95

Pursell, Garry - 2017

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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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis

Jensen, Hans Grinsted - 2017

When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated with the terms of trade change. Several recent analyses...

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The Effect of Product Standards on Agricultural Exports from Developing Countries

Ferro, Esteban - 2017

The authors create a standards restrictiveness index using newly available data on maximum residue levels of pesticides for 61 importing countries. The paper analyzes the impact that food safety standards have on international trade of agricultural products. The findings suggest that more...

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