We investigate the impacts of multilateral removal of all border taxes and farm programs and their distortions on developing economies, using a world agriculture partial equilibrium model. We quantify changes in prices, trade flows, and production locations. Border measures and farm programs...

A censored linear almost ideal demand system for food is estimated with a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo procedure, using a sample of urban households from Pakistan. All own-price elasticities but one are found to be negative, and all total food expenditure elasticities are found to be...

We analyze the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on major crop and livestock markets using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) modeling framework. We incorporate expected changes in consumer income, textile production, and trade policies as...