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Trade and Development When Exports Lack Diversification: A Case Study From Malawi
Persaud, Suresh Chand; Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
Developing countries, particularly those that depend heavily on a small number of agricultural exports, are vulnerable to domestic and international shocks. These countries often have difficulty achieving sustained economic growth. This analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546868
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Measuring Protection: Mission Impossible?
Salvatici, Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2006
In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443012
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Modelling Euro-Mediterranean Agricultural Trade
Garcia-Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Martinez-Gomez, Victor; … - 2006
This paper examines the methodological problems to define a modelling approach to assess the impact of full or limited bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The bilateral trade liberalisation process in the region is framed by complexity, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443013
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EU Trade Policies: Benchmarking Protection in a General Equilibrium Framework
Antimiani, Alessandro; Salvatici, Luca - 2005
protection based on the applied tariffs faced by each exporter. In order to do this, an index of trade policy restrictiveness is … computed, using the Mercantilistic Trade Restrictiveness Index as the tariff aggregator. We also analyze the protection granted … to each sector by the existing tariff structure. In this report, we compute effective rates of protection that overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443017
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GROUNDNUT TRADE LIBERALIZATION: A SOUTH-SOUTH DEBATE?
Beghin, John C.; Diop, Ndiame; Matthey, Holger; … - 2003
cost of the adjustment would fall on Indian farmers and crushers. In China, crush margins would improve because of the … dramatically. Net buyers of groundnut products in OECD (Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development) countries would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443106
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The Prophecies of the Naysayers - Assessing the Vision of the Protectionists in the U.S.-Canada Debate on Agricultural Reciprocity, 1846-1854
Kerr, William A.; Forgrave, Robert J. - 2003
Debates over proposals to liberalise international trade are often heated and acrimonious. They are often argued, in part, on the basis of projections of market conditions after the proposed liberalisation. These argument are often important in influencing trade policy decisions, yet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443938
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How Cool is C.O.O.L.?
Dinopoulos, Elias; Livanis, Grigorios T.; West, Carol - 2005
of the wedge depends positively on the per-unit cost of illness and the proportion of unsafe units embodied in the parent … – caused by a reduction in protection – is better than less trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446863
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Modelling Euro-Mediterranean Agricultural Trade
Garcia Alvarez-Coque, Jose-Maria; Martinez-Gomez, Victor; … - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006
This paper examines the methodological problems to define a modelling approach to assess the impact of full or limited bilateral liberalisation of agricultural trade flows in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The bilateral trade liberalisation process in the region is framed by complexity, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801238
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Measuring Protection: Mission Impossible?
Salvatici, Luca; Cipollina, Maria - TRADEAG - Agricultural Trade Agreements - 2006
In the international trade literature there seems to be some confusion between "openness" and "protection" measures … extent of the protection granted by policies rather than on the degree of openness of the economy. Given the huge size of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801241
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Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality?
McCalla, Alex F. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28 (2003) 03
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for reducing barriers to trade under the three pillars of liberalization--market access, export assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805437