of large benefits from a Philippines-EU FTA will not be found in agriculture, but elsewhere. Conversely, the agricultural …This study examines the impact of a potential Philippines-European Union (EU) free trade agreement (FTA) on the … agricultural sector. Static analysis indicates that potential gains to the agricultural sector of the Philippines are limited …

-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but … expansion in industry, particular in the nonfood manufacturing sector. Factor prices drop in agriculture while increase in … industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty …

displacement effects on poor households that rely heavily on agriculture for factor incomes, particularly on palay rice production … inputs in the sector, lower factor prices in agriculture, and lower factor incomes for these households. Thus, poverty in …

The Philippines is a developing country with strong commitment to the millennium development goals (MDGs). However, it …

FTA on Ecuador's agriculture, and how various types of producers would be affected from trade liberalization. This kind of …

, freshwater availability and soil quality. Agriculture also plays an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. Thus …

Doha is very small and generates biased effects against agriculture. The impact of Philippine trade reform within the Doha … impact of a free world trade economy is favorable in terms of higher export prices and export demand for agriculture and … agriculture-related manufacturing industries. This mitigates the biased effects against agriculture, and is therefore favorable to …

, freshwater availability and soil quality. Agriculture also plays an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. Thus …

"This paper has been prepared in support of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) roundtable … in Ghana. The study also takes a fresh perspective on the role of agriculture for development in light of the global food … percent growth target. In this process, agriculture supports the rest of the economy through substantial and largely invisible …

confined to the ASEAN plus 3 and to a broader set of tariff changes that covers all the trading partners of the Philippines …. The findings of the paper are as follows. First, the FTAAP is likely to benefit the Philippines in the form of higher …