assess the impact of international rice trade policies onthe patterns of production, consumption, trade, and prices, from an …, namely, (1) trade policy groups, and (2) countries, toobtain a better idea of the partial effect of policies and or countries …, itcan contribute to an improved understanding of trade policy for regional and global rice supply and,thus, for improved …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

The risk of non-indigenous pests entering theUK via international trade in fresh produce isincreasing. Suppliers of … that will more closely targetinspection efforts on the higher risk trade pathways. …

The importance of food standards in global agricultural trade has increased strongly, but the effects are uncertain … countries and concentrate the benefits of trade with processing and retailing companies and large farms, thereby casting doubt … on the development impact of international agricultural trade. Other argue that the standards can be catalysts for growth …

welfare reducing for the region - a robust result as ind icated by the sensitivity tests. South Africa emerges as the sole …. Imports from the rest of the world drop for most netimporter SADC countries, whereas trade with the SADC region generally … increases, indicating that both trade diversion and trade creation result from these tariff reforms. The negative net welfare …

This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade …. Thus, by increasing the wages of poorer workers, one might expect that trade willdecrease income disparity. However … Mexico. Because trade may affect wages differentlyacross regions within the country, accurate trade welfare measures must …

global poverty. The increase largely comes from South Asia (particularly India) and Sub-Saharan Africa. Significant number of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa show higher poverty with large scale expansion of biofuels. However, poverty declines in East … the GINI coefficient in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. There is a small reduction in the GINI coefficient in the rest …

important foreign exchange earner for the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM), and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) member …), and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) member countries. Jamaica is the only CARICOM country that exports tilapia …

As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country … participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how international trade affects the poor in developing countries … accounts data, or what might be called the “"top-down”" approach. Another feature of several recent trade/poverty studies–- and …