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country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … specific constituencies, including some poor households, could see their immediate food security threatened by the withdrawal … is unlikely to jeopardise food security. Developing countries are increasingly able to deploy such targeted instruments …
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This paper examines the ‘small share’ problem inherent within the constant elasticity of substitution Armington specification. As a de facto research tool in the quantitative trade literature, this structural bias plagues the results of numerous multi-region CGE studies. Kuiper and van...
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Although the key issue in the WTO negotiations on agriculture is subsidies reduction, the EU and USA still account more than 85% of the world agriculture subsidies. An important policy question confronting developing countries is whether the reduction agreed within the Hong Kong conference could...
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This study provides a new framework of analysis of the market and welfare effects of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL) for fruits and vegetables that accounts for heterogeneous consumer preferences, differences in producer agronomic characteristics, and retailer market power. The...
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This paper is the final report of a research project whose aim was to analyse the methodology of calculating the costs and benefits for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia of the envisaged accession to the European Union. The research focused particularly on the impact of the...
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still blocked. Now suddenly the food crisis that has been developing over the last few months has put agricultural issues …
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Given the highly concentrated distribution of agricultural protection, allowing in the negotiations too many exceptions through sensitive products puts at risk the objectives of World Trade Organization. This issue is difficult to analyze with the commonly used applied trade models, because they...
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examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food …-farm sectors on agricultural self-sufficiency and real food consumption per capita in Asia and elsewhere. The paper concludes by … drawing implications for policies that can address more efficiently Asia’s concerns about food security and rural …
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examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food …-farm sectors on agricultural self-sufficiency and real food consumption per capita in Asia and elsewhere. The paper concludes by … drawing implications for policies that can address more efficiently Asia’s concerns about food security and rural …
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