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which affects the incidence of poverty, although all the channels of transmission are not fully understood. Globalization … recent eras of globalization. This paper reviews the evidence on the determinants of the disparities in per capita incomes …, but globalization may have an impact on their development. Globalization also has direct effects on economic activity …
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We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...
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The forest conservation policy instrument REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak institutions,...
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The average value of a particular class of agricultural exports varies widely across different destinations. This raises the question: in the event of a supply shock, such as the implementation of the Emissions Trading Scheme, can farmers offset higher costs by raising their average prices by...
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The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak...
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One of the arguments against the Fair Trade scheme is that the guaranteed minimum price tends to depress world prices and thus the incomes of non-participating farmers (e.g. The Economist, 2006). We develop a model that distinguishes between the impact of the introduction of a Fair Trade market...
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gases (GHG). In fact, despite the contribution of trade in reducing poverty levels around the world, concerns remain …
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World food markets are susceptible to systemic shocks due to a concentration of production in a few main breadbasket regions, strong import dependencies of many developing countries, and frequent unilateral and uncoordinated policy interventions such as export restrictions.The well-established...
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