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How Much Do Agricultural Policies Restrict Trade? Comparing Trade Restrictiveness Indexes

Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 4, pp. 1-7

Recently the Bank has provided new indicators for monitoring the extent to which agricultural policies restrict international trade in farm goods. They come from two studies with differing methodologies and data sources, and each provides less-than-perfect estimates. This note shows how and...

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Environmental and Health-Related Standards Influencing Agriculture in Australia

Stringer, Randy; Anderson, Kym - 2003

Netherlands. The five countries include Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand and the USA. Each country study …, Australia's farmers have been largely insulated from the demands of environmental groups and from government restrictions on … government if the resource base is to be used optimally. Australia has begun responding to this environmental challenge by …

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Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

Developing Asia's rapid economic growth has been shifting the global economic and industrial centers of gravity away from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of...

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Trade liberalization, agriculture, and poverty in low-income countries

Anderson, Kym - 2003

This paper offers an economic assessment of the opportunities and challenges provided by the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda, particularly through agricultural trade liberalization, for low-income countries seeking to trade their way out of poverty. After discussing links between poverty,...

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Asia-Pacific Food Markets and Trade in 2005: A Global, Economy-wide Perspective

Anderson, Kym; Dimaranan, Betina; Hertel, Thomas W; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Rapid industrialization in East Asia, particularly China, is raising questions about who will feed the region in the next century and how Asia will pay for its food imports. The paper addresses this question by first reviewing existing food sector projections and then taking an economy-wide...

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Asia’s Evolving Role in Global Wine Markets

Anderson, Kym; Wittwer, Glyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Over the past decade Hong Kong and China have become far more important to the world’s wine markets, while Southeast Asia’s imports of fine wine continue to grow steadily. This paper reviews recent developments in the light of comparative advantage theory before drawing on a model of global...

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Estimating effects of price-distorting policies using alternative distortions databases

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper addresses three questions relating to the very extensive use of the GTAP global trade protection database: Are there additional price-distorting policy instruments worthy of inclusion in the base year? What is the appropriate counterfactual set of price distortions in the year of...

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

out for natural resource-abundant economies, including Australia and New Zealand. …

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Food security policy options for China: lessons from other countries

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

As China becomes more industrial and urbanized, it is likely to become more dependent over time on imports of (especially land-intensive) farm products, most notably livestock feedstuffs. If farmers are slow to adjust to their declining competitiveness, for example by obtaining off-farm...

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