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A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of a Ukraine-Eu Free Trade Agreement on Agriculture

Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von - 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 … accession affects agriculture in Ukraine, and how potential bilateral tariff cuts may interact with potential productivity gains …

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Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives : Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects

Anderson, Kym - 2016

also suggest that full global liberalization of merchandise trade would raise value added in agriculture in developing …

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute …

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Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Country Farmers?

Anderson, Kym - 2016

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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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2016

Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...

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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 …

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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

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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Rain, Agriculture, and Tariffs

Bastos, Paulo - 2017

This paper examines whether and how rainfall shocks affect tariff setting in the agricultural sector. In a model of strategic trade policy, the authors show that the impact of a negative rainfall shock on optimal import tariffs is generally ambiguous, depending on the weight placed by the...

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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym - 2017

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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The Effect of Product Standards on Agricultural Exports from Developing Countries

Ferro, Esteban - 2017

The authors create a standards restrictiveness index using newly available data on maximum residue levels of pesticides for 61 importing countries. The paper analyzes the impact that food safety standards have on international trade of agricultural products. The findings suggest that more...

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