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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions
Anderson, Kym - 2017
the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …
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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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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects
Anderson, Kym - 2016
Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747885
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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2016
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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A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of a Ukraine-Eu Free Trade Agreement on Agriculture
von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2017
sectors. This paper employs the standard Global Trade Analysis Project model in order to assess how World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976599
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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 … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833536
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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy Responses : A Global Economywide Analysis
Jensen, Hans Grinsted - 2017
results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972865
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Agricultural Trade : What Matters in the Doha Round?
Laborde, David - 2017
This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture accounts for less than 10 percent of merchandise trade, high and...
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975528
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Trade Barrier Volatility and Domestic Price Stabilization : Evidence from Agriculture
Anderson, Kym - 2017
-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976237