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20 years of transition – institutional reforms and the adaptation of production in Estonian agriculture
Viira, Ants-Hannes; Poder, Anne; Varnik, Rando - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 7
This article provides an overview of the most important reforms, their background, and corresponding changes in Estonian agriculture during the transition period from 1988-2008. The past two decades have been divided into three sub-periods to outline differences in dynamics and the direction of...
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On the Economics of Adulteration in Food Imports: Application to US Fish and Seafood Imports
Pouliot, Sébastien - Structure and Performance of Agriculture and … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911059
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Prospects and Challenges in the formation of the COMESA-EAC and SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area
Shinyekwa, Isaac; Othieno, Lawrence - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911186
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Lessons Learned from the Phase-out of the MFA: Moving from Managed Distortion to Managed Distortion
Hudson, Darren; Ethridge, Don E.; Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M. - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 12 (2011) 1
represented an elimination of a distortionary set of trade agreements, it was based on the assumption that the underlying global … trading regime was based on free trade principles. However, due to the trading pattern that has emerged after the MFA and its …
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Strategic Devaluation, Trade and Political Convenience
Kerr, William A. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 13 (2012) 1
means to stimulate their economies. Trade protectionism and strategic devaluation are potential policies. The lessons of the …
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Impact of Risk and Time Preferences on Responses to Forest Tenure Land Reform: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China
Sullivan, Karen A.; Uchida, Emi; Xu, Jintao - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
risks and poverty need to be coupled with such reforms in order to increase investment in long-term, productivity enhancing …
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - 2010
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade … information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information … limited competition. The United States–China price linkage is observed to be closer after China’s World Trade Organization …
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Implications of conceptual and data complexities on time-series econometric applications in market integration analysis
Abunyuwah, Isaac - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 115 (2013) 1
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Spatial Price Analysis Incorporating Rate of Trade: Methods and Application to United States–China Soybean Trade
Han, Shengfei; Durham, Catherine A. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 02
A regime-switching model for analysis of market integration has been developed that incorporates rate of trade … information. An application of the methods to United States–China soybean trade demonstrates that the extended trade information … limited competition. The United States–China price linkage is observed to be closer after China’s World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530506
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Trade policy reforms in the new agricultural context: Is regional integration a priority for Sub-Saharan African countries agricultural-led industrialization? Insights from a globa...
Douillet, Mathilde - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
preferential) trade integration are compared to assess policy reform priorities. Their coherence with the objective of agriculture … contrary regional integration fosters the production and trade of processed agricultural products. Regional integration has …
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