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world. A majority of people want at least to have labels on products that may contain GMOs, while the most extreme opponents …
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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 …, thereby helping to reduce poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way towards those desirable …
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An applied general equilibrium model is used to assess the impact of multilateral trade liberalization in agriculture, with particular emphasis on developing countries. We use original data, and the model includes some specific features such as a dual labor market. Applied tariffs, including...
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This paper illustrates some of the potential consequences of the WTO's Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer...
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This paper compares the degree of openness to trade of three developed countries markets-the European Union, Japan, the United States-with that of three middle-income countries, namely Brazil, India, and China. A theoretically consistent protection measure - the Mercantilistic Trade...
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poverty in developing countries, since three quarters of the world's billion poorest people depend directly or indirectly on …
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An AGE model with detailed farm supply and substitution relationships is used to analyze impacts of OECD domestic support reform on developing economy welfare. Stylized simulations indicate reforms best suited for reducing trade distortions with least impact on farm incomes. Comprehensive...
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Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is incomplete under free trade because of the decrease...
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With rising levels of food and livelihood insecurity among poor farmers, many developing members at the WTO are demanding special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for shielding their agriculture from import surges and price declines. Most of developing members do not have any trade instrument under the...
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completed, and it shows where the ‘development promises' of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World …
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