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Krueger/Schiff/Valdés Revisited: Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries since 1960

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdés (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...

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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...

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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster

An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …

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China, GMOs and World Trade in Agricultural and Textile Products

Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

China has always strived for self-sufficiency in farm products, particularly staple foods. Its rapid industrialization … for China, since it is prospectively not only a major producer and consumer of GM farm products but also a potential … exporter of some of them. It explores the potential economic effects of China not adopting versus adopting GMOs when some of …

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Are clusters more resilient in crises? Evidence from French exporters in 2008-2009

Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Mayneris, Florian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Clusters have already been extensively shown to favor firm-level economic performance (productivity, exports, innovation etc.). However, little is known about the capacity of firms in clusters to resist economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze whether firms that agglomerate in clusters and...

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Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda

Anderson, Kym; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in late 1999. To what extent should those negotiations include so-called "new trade agenda" items aimed at ensuring that domestic regulatory policies do not discriminate against...

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Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited

Anderson, Kym; Kurzweil, Marianne; Martin, Will; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

assistance to farmers in China for the period 1981 to 2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide CGE model of the …

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Agricultural Price Distortions: Trends and Volatility, Past and Prospective

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Historically, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduced global economic welfare and...

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Grain Price Spikes and Beggar-thy-neighbor Policy Responses: A Global Economywide Analysis

Anderson, Kym; Jensen, Hans G. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated with that terms of trade change. Several recent analyses...

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