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Proposals for agricultural trade reform put forward by the main protagonists remain far apart, with little sign of … with the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model, a static, multi-commodity, multi-region, partial equilibrium trade …
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Bosnia Herzegovina (BH) is in the process of joining the World Trade Organization in the near future and the European … trade model is used to estimate the potentially negative impacts of accession on production and trade in several specific …
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Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific … sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade … employment effects of trade shocks are quite small, with the possible exception of the highly protected sugar sector …
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means of achieving food security. Restrictive trade policies, including specific tariffs on rice and sugar, and quantitative … pristine areas in an attempt to maintain self-sufficiency. On the other hand, more open trade may offer better options to … analyze the efficiency and distributional impacts of these agricultural trade policies. The results suggest that removing or …
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Negotiations on industrial tariffs in the current WTO have turned out to be surpisingly more difficult than expected. On the one hand, developing countries, particularly in Africa, are concerned about the effect on their industrial development of developed country efforts to push them into deep...
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The current WTO negotiations on industrial tariffs have focused largely on a formula approach to cutting tariffs, but the process of trying to find a compromise that would satisfy all sides has led to a number of propositions that entail blending various elements of formulae, sectoral...
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The interests of developing countries in multilateral trade negotiations will need to be given greater consideration … than previously if progress is to be made in the current round of multilateral trade negotiations. Modelling the impacts of …
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rice policy options using a dynamic, stochastic, ten-region, partial equilibrium model of world rice trade. While the Thai …
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The WTO negotiations on the reform of agricultural tariffs, export subsidies and domestic support is proving to be increasingly frustrating with little progress since prior to the Cancun Ministerial of August 2003, apart from an agreement to keep talking. In this paper a possible outcome in the...
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