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Current coffee prices are at record lows and below the cost of production for many producers in Central America …. Moreover, the coffee crisis is structural, and changes in supply and demand do not indicate a quick recovery of prices. So …, coffee producers in Central America are facing new challenges-as are coffee laborers, coffee exporters, and others linked to …
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contracts without product grading. To do this, the study uses original data from a survey of 450 coffee producers in Tanzania …'s coffee market that take advantage of contractual variation in the Kilimanjaro region. The results indicate that coffee …
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After experiencing a boom during the mid-1990s, the performance of Uganda's coffee industry has been disappointing …, weak regulatory framework, and poor infrastructure. Recommendations range from setting up a coffee auction to increasing … facts of the Ugandan coffee industry. It argues that the coffee wilt disease and the effectiveness of the coffee replanting …
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domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys … covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and … dependence on coffee farming. Regression analysis (based on pooled data from the three surveys) of consumption expenditure on …
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household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …
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This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil?s increased integration into the world economy. It … reaction of low-educated workers to changes in market access. This finding is consistent with the fact that Brazil is exporting …
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Although Brazil has become one of the largest economies in the world, it remains among the most closed economies as … Brazil's economy. Rather, it is due to an economic structure reliant on domestic value chain integration as opposed to … up and moving toward integration into global value chains could produce efficiency gains and help Brazil address its …
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Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...
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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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This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
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