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amount to about $70 billion from 40% cuts in both market price support and domestic producer subsidies. These gains shrink to …
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Opportunities for export-led growth by Australia's rural industries are improving as East Asia returns to growth, agricultural protectionist barriers start to be lowered abroad, deregulation of domestic markets continue, and the costs of international transportation and communications drop....
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outlining the basic measurement theory, the chapter provides a brief history of policies of advanced and developing economies … and then surveys empirical studies that document the changing extent of price distortions over the past half century. It …
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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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The new agricultural biotechnologies that are generating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are seen as exciting and valuable developments by many people who recognise the improvements in production efficiency that they offer. Others, however, are objecting strongly to their use. Both...
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This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies,...
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estimates of policy induced price distortions. Global trade modelers mostly use the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP … questions relating to the very extensive use of that database. Are there other price-distorting policy instruments worthy of … inclusion in the base year? What is the appropriate counterfactual set of price distortions in the year of concern (such as when …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090653
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affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated … 2006-08 international price rise, but only by focusing on one commodity or using a back-of-the-envelope method. This paper …
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