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This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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This paper investigates the link between export survival of agri-food products and financial development. It tests the hypothesis that financial development differentially affects the survival of exports across products based on their need of external finance. The authors test whether exports of...
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The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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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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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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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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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 Analysis Project model in order to assess how World Trade Organization …
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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competition in Russia during 2002-2008. The authors examine indicators of concentration and contestability, and compute non …-structural measures of competition. They compare competition in Russia to that in Brazil, China, and India, and contrast competition …
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Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low … also suggest that full global liberalization of merchandise trade would raise value added in agriculture in developing …
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