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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 …
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Financial Development and Survival of African Agri-Food Exports
Jaud, Melise - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976026
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891121
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750457
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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970677
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Covid-19 Mortality in Rich and Poor Countries : A Tale of Two Pandemics?
Schellekens, Philip - 2020
applies not just to the vulnerable in the rich world; the vulnerable in the rest of the world are not more immune. Yet … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … yet to run its course through the age distributions of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832606
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834265
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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 contrasts in trends reflects the real devaluation of the rupee after 1986 but meant that by the early 1990s, at world … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world … reference prices. Because of the fluctuations in world free market prices, nominal protection of sugar and sugarcane production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971046
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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972648