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This essay shows the role of economics in the adulteration of food imports.The mechanism of impact in the model is the choice of input quality by exporting firms. One implication of the model is that conomic variables can be used to predict adulteration in food imports. The essay offers an...
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The stalemate of the multilateral trade system in addressing key trade and trade related issues over the years have … mounted pressure on World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states to search for alternative solutions. This pressure has … directed countries’ attention and efforts towards bilateral and regional trade arrangements as an immediate intervention to …
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, should endeavour to re-strategize itself to benefit from the opportunities such trading blocks create through increased trade …. Trade is likely to increase with EPA in place and this is likely to lead to biodiversity conservation challenges amidst the …. Although Government has made significant progress in achieving these objectives, balancing trade and biodiversity under EPA …
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In the last decade, internal conflict has greatly hindered market transactions across regions of Sudan, especially transactions between Darfur and the Rest of Sudan. Food aid has helped to offset not only the absence of commercial inflows of grain, but also reductions in Darfur’s cereal...
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The value of U.S. agricultural exports rose $4.3 billion to $39.1 billion in FY 1989 as exports to virtually every major market surpassed year-earlier levels. Canada and Mexico were the largest suppliers of agricultural commodities to the United States for the third consecutive year in FY 19H9....
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NAFTA and GATT will dramatically alter regulations protecting U.S. peanut markets and will allow foreign producers considerable access to domestic market. Traditionally, the political economy surrounding peanut policy has been favorable to domestic producers. Rising peanut butter imports,...
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. They are ideal crops for simultaneously achieving three developmental goals in targeted population—reducing poverty … analysis and sheds light on the pulse crop production, price, trade, and consumption patterns observed in the developing world … growing pulse requirements through increased imports and have now become net importers of pulses. Trade in pulses grew more …
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There have been important changes in the international trade of processed and high-value added food products from …, and explores possible reasons for the trends, focusing on trade policies in less-developed countries (LDCs) and developed … countries (DCs). The paper argues that national trade policies and other economic policies appear to have been relatively …
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industries in all parts of the world, but also for the rest of the world economy. An assessment of agricultural and trade policy … of the present state of applied modelling in the area of trade and agricultural policies. We provide in this paper a …
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