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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will J; Ivanic, Maros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

added substantially to the spike in international prices for rice, wheat, maize, and oilseeds. As a result, although …

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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

estimates of agricultural distortions to assess its contribution to the price spikes in 1972-4 and 2006-8 for rice and wheat …. The analysis suggests that 45 percent of the increase in rice prices in 2006-8, and 30 percent of the increase in wheat …-insulating behavior by the industrial countries. This provides little stabilizing benefit in the rice market because countries not …

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Genetically Modified Rice Adoption : Implications for Welfare and Poverty Alleviation

Anderson, Kym - 2016

adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so using the … be dwarfed by the welfare gains resulting from the potential health-enhancing attributes of golden rice which would boost …

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Economic Impacts of Policies Affecting Crop Biotechnology and Trade

Anderson, Kym - Centre for International Economic Studies, School of … - 2010

Agricultural biotechnologies, and especially transgenic crops, have the potential to boost food security in developing countries by offering higher incomes for farmers and lower-priced and better quality food for consumers. That potential is being heavily compromised, however, because the...

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Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Anderson, Kym; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in late 1999. To what extent should those negotiations include so-called "new trade agenda" items aimed at ensuring that domestic regulatory policies do not discriminate against...

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Chapter 62 International Trade Policies Affecting Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries

Anderson, Kym - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3215-3252). 2010

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic...

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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym - 2013

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited

Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. As well, in developing...

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Cultures transgeniques et commerce international

Anderson, Kym; Nielsen, Chantal M. Pohl - In: Economie Internationale (2001) 87, pp. 45-62

Les debats actuels sur les organismes genetiquement modifies (OGM) dans l'agriculture montrent des divergences dans la perception des risques et des benefices lies au genie genetique. Les OGM peuvent beneficier aux pays pauvres comme riches, mais ils soulevent des questions de securite sanitaire...

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