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This paper examines whether the Sub-Saharan African economies could gain from multilateral trade reform in the presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and...
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If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade Organization (WTO) members to liberalize trade multilaterally, they need to be convinced that there will be sufficient gains from trade reform to warrant the inevitable costs of...
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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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Rapid industrialization in East Asia, particularly China, is raising questions about who will feed the region in the … agricultural productivity growth and of slower economic growth in China. Several policy shocks are also examined. They include the … entry of China (and hence Taiwan) into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the failure to fully abolish the bilateral …
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