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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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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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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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results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …
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This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and … politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture accounts for … cost of distortions to global merchandise trade. Within agriculture, most of the costs appear to arise from trade barriers …
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as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
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Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …
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-- the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade … to raise their import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World … through new World Trade Organization rules could help alleviate the extent to which government responses to exogenous price …
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