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Madagascar plans to start phasing out its customs tariffs on imports from the Southern African Development Community in 2007. This paper uses a CGE model to evaluate the impact of the SADC FTA on Madagascar economy. The results suggest that the SADC FTA would only have a limited impact on...
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This paper draws on a general equilibrium poisson pseudo maximum likelihood model augmented by a dynamic capital accumulation to estimate the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on intra-African trade flows. The empirical results show that the AfCFTA could raise...
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This exploratory study examines the export potential of the East African Community (EAC) within the new African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the impending COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA). The research aims to determine the EAC's export potential, identify key...
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EBA eligibility has induced significantly exports of fruits, nuts and vegetables from Africa to the EU-27. Estimating … different count models using border rejection data from the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed database, we also find other … trade enhancing effects of RTAs that go beyond tariff reductions, as all EU-Africa RTAs have negative effects on border …
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minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …
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empirical results show that trade openness significantly improves food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the presence …This paper reexamines the effect of trade openness on food security in Sub-Saharan African countries. Panel data … of political instability, a deterioration of the food security situation is observed …
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drivers of FDI in food and agriculture sector in Africa. More specifically, population size consistently has a significant …) in the African food and agriculture sector in the last 15 years? (2) What are the drivers of FDI in the African food and … agriculture sector? (3) What is the evidence on the impacts of private-sector investments in the African food and agriculture …
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Recently, short food supply chains have been thoroughly studied in some countries; however, data are sparse from others …. In Hungary, the local food movement has been developing very fast and an outburst in the number of farmers markets has … short food supply chains are different based on their socio-demographic, farm- and production-related characteristics …
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. Advances in food production have reduced the calorie costs of sweeteners and fats well below the costs of fruits, vegetables … promising food consumption policy interventions focus on providing incentives to increase production of healthier foods, and …
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Recent efforts to regulate the safety of U.S. food imports have not kept up with the complexity of global trade and the … risks that accompany globalization. Congress drafted the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 ("FSMA") in response to … heightened food safety risks, surging imports, and an outdated food import safety system. While the FSMA provides the Food and …
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