This paper attempts to measure the impact of government intervention in product and factor markets on chickpea competitiveness in India. This is done by estimating the nominal (NPC), effective (EPC) and effective subsidy (ESC) protection coefficients for chickpea and its main competing crops...

The objective of the paper is to make an exploratory assessment of the impact of the G-3 free trade agreement on member countries' agricultural trade. To fulfill this objective, empirical estimates of changes in the structure of agricultural trade for four products traded between partner...

We analyze the transmission of shocks through international bank lending, as is suggested in Kaminsky and Reinhart [6], by examining the bank’s international lending behavior. We develop a portfolio selection model, which explicitly includes the economic condition of the bank’s home county....

This paper discusses the effects of Angola’s mineral income from oil and diamonds on the major political and economic goal of the present time: national reconciliation and reconstruction in the aftermath of its quarter century long civil war. The paper first touches upon the size of the...