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For millennia, alcoholic drinks have played an important role in food security and health (both positive and negative), but consumption patterns of beer, wine, and spirits have altered substantially over the past two centuries. So too have their production technologies and industrial...
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manufactures. Hence much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture … economy that are likely to influence the welfare impacts of liberalizing agricultural and non-agricultural trade. It projects … the global economy to 2005, when the Uruguay Round (UR) implementation will be complete, and assesses the potential impact …
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world. A majority of people want at least to have labels on products that may contain GMOs, while the most extreme opponents … well lead to trade disputes in the WTO. It then uses an empirical model of the global economy (the GTAP model) to quantify …
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This paper is a revision of an Invited Paper for the Australian Conference of Economists, Adelaide, 1-3 October 2002. The research on which the paper draws was funded by the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, and the...
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This compilation of data is prepared as a companion to the Bank's research project on distortions to agricultural incentives. Its purpose is to provide comparative basic economic and trade indicators for the countries involved as case studies in that project. The project is global in coverage,...
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has made to the world economy since 1948, substantial scope remains for further contributions from and adaptations by its … successor since 1995, the World Trade Organization. After first reviewing why the world needs the WTO, this paper examines the …
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prior to the formation in 1995 of the new World Trade Organization (WTO). However, much remains to be done before … agricultural trade is as fully disciplined or as free as world trade in manufactures. This mid-way point in the UR implementation …
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Despite the huge contribution the GATT has made to the world economy since 1948, substantial scope remains for further … contributions from and adaptations by its successor since 1995, the World Trade Organization. After first reviewing why the world …
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the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), our results suggest farm employment, the real …
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This paper illustrates some of the potential consequences of the WTO's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer...
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