Agricultural trade barriers and producer subsidies inflict real costs, both on the countries that use these policies … and on their trade partners. Trade barriers lower demand for trade partners' products, domestic subsidies can induce an … restricting world trade. In 2000, World Trade Organization (WTO) members continued global negotiations on agricultural policy …

We develop a detailed trade analysis to assess the potential impacts of a free trade agreement (FTA) on the … trade data at the four-digit Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) level for 193 agricultural industries in 14 … countries. Largest benefits would go to countries with a regional comparative advantage for agriculture, while still being …

structure, is fit to East Asian data of the social accounting matrix variety. Simulations of trade reform are performed and … their static and dynamic effects compared. The transition paths of the state variables are found to have a half-life of five …

transfers to the rest of the economy, thus providing a powerful argument to raise public expenditure on agriculture to make a …

potential and trade opportunities through regional integration. We analyze the implications of such opportunities using a …

analyzes the economy-wide effects of the linkages between trade reform and the reform of water markets in irrigated agriculture …Many of the import competing sectors in Moroccan agriculture are protected while water in irrigated agriculture is … priced below its marginal value product. Establishing a water market in this pre-trade reform environment can be welfare …

This paper delves into China’s differential growths in trade flows with high income and developing countries by … focusing on bilateral content of trade data over the time period 1978-2005. Unlike other studies, we account for end use of …’s trade flows. In the last 28 years, China has specialized in deficits in the upstream production segments (parts and …

The effects of environment on trade and welfare are analyzed in a modifiedHeckscher-Ohlin framework using a quasi … small in the world market. Otherwise,changes in the terms of trade may cause one country to be made better off at the …