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Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture : Methodology, Background Statistics, and Protection and Incentive Indicators, 1965-95
Pursell, Garry - 2017
in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world …
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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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Iraq's Universal Public Distribution System : Utilization and Impacts During Displacement
Phadera, Lokendra - 2020
Subsidized or free distribution of food has been a central pillar of social protection programs in many countries. With the number of forcibly displaced persons at record levels, the question arises of whether in-kind food transfer programs are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced...
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Managing Food Price Volatility in a Large Open Country : The Case of Wheat in India
Gouel, Christophe - 2017
India has pursued an active food security policy for many years, using a combination of trade policy interventions …
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Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India : Can the Integrated Child Development Services Be More Effective?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2017
Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966153
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Novel Indicators of the Trade and Welfare Effects of Agricultural Distortions in OECD Countries
Anderson, Kym - 2017
Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer and consumer support estimates can be poor indicators of the trade restrictiveness and economic welfare...
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Lobbying and Agricultural Trade Policy in the United States
Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - 2015
The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions
Anderson, Kym - 2017
Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but...
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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 sectors. This paper employs the standard Global Trade...
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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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