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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969350
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207521
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749078
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683449
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080582
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024057
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504672
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313271
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Reexamining Policies for Food Security in Asia
Anderson, Kym - 2015
In the wake of recent food price spikes, plus growing demands for food in emerging Asia and for biofuels in Europe and the United States, governments are reexamining their strategies for dealing with both short-term and long-term food security concerns. This paper argues that long-run trends in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036865
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Implications of Genetically Modified Food Technology Policies for Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym - 2016
consumers, beginning with quot;golden rice,quot; which has been genetically engineered to contain a higher level of vitamin A … large, especially from nutritionally enhanced GM wheat and rice, and that - contrary to the claims of numerous interests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749052