restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade. The impact of … rice QR generates a set of effects where consumer price reduction dominates nominal income decline. Thus, real income …

international markets. Among the farm households that produce cotton, about 40 percent of total income comes from its production …

The quantitative restriction (QR) on rice will last until the end of 2004. The paper employs a computable general … tariff on rice imports. Policy experiments indicate that while market reforms in rice lead to a reduction in the overall … reforms in rice bring about a reduction in consumer prices that is favorable to all, imports of rice surge and generate …

. Exports of the rest of ASEAN increase as well, including the Philippines. The entry of cheaper rice in the Philippines …