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What?S Left for the WTO?
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
Suppose that when addressing the question of ?what?s left for the WTO?,? tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda … applied tariffs remain ?too high?; the implication being that the WTO?s job performance to date is incomplete. This includes … applied tariffs for countries that are not members of the WTO, applied MFN tariffs for WTO members that are unbound, and …
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How Do Governments Respond to Food Price Spikes? Lessons from the Past
Anderson, Kym - 2017
Food prices in international markets spiked upward in 2008, doubling or more in a matter of months. Evidence is still being compiled on policy responses over the following two years, but lessons can be learned from the price spike in 1973, the magnitude and speed of which were similar to those...
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Krueger/Schiff/Valdes Revisited : Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries Since 1960
Anderson, Kym - 2017
A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdes (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...
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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-income countries are depressed partly due to a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, and partly because richer countries (including some developing countries) favor their farmers with import...
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Playing to Strength : Growth Strategy for Small Agrarian Economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid - 2018
With urban industrialization on the scale achieved by East Asian economies looking increasingly less plausible, small economies in Africa need an alternative strategic approach to long-term growth. The purpose of this paper is to identify a growth strategy with the greatest potential for small,...
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Policy and Performance in Customs : Evaluating the Trade Facilitation Agreement
Hillberry, Russell H. - 2018
The 2013 World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali produced a comprehensive framework agreement on trade facilitation. If fully implemented, the agreement should increase the speed and reduce the cost of moving goods across international borders. But which reforms are most likely to improve...
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Formulas for Failure? Were the Doha Tariff Formulas Too Ambitious for Success?
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper views tariff-cutting formulas as a potential solution to the free-rider problem that arises when market opening is negotiated bilaterally and extended on a most-favored-nation basis. The negotiators in the Doha Agenda chose formulas that are ideal from an economic efficiency viewpoint...
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The Critical Mass Approach to Achieve a Deal on Green Goods and Services : What is on the Table? How Much to Expect?
de Melo, Jaime - 2017
At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalizing trade in "green goods" (also known as "environmental" goods), focusing on the elimination of tariffs for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation list of 54 products. The paper shows that the...
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The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia, a region characterized by a high level of malnutrition. The review finds that the level and stability of food prices play a critical part in food consumption, with rising...
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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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