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This study analyzed the impact of PVYn and potato wart disease outbreaks in PEI on the potato industry. These disease outbreaks resulted in the loss of the US seed export market to PEI producers. The effects of the disease outbreaks were mitigated through value-added processing. Price premiums...
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In terms of the global situation, trade is biofuels is small relative to world-wide production; however, given … an agricultural product, though not specifically for fuel use. The removal of trade barriers, particularly in the … these trade barriers on biofuels would affect their efficacy as a political tool remains to be seen. …
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There exists an extensive literature that attempts to identify important factors that determine trade policies. An … understanding of these important factors could be useful when negotiating trade agreements, especially in agriculture, which is a … in an attempt to understand why anti-trade bias (as opposed to pro-trade bias, which is predicted by the G&H (1994) model …
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into effect. This paper reviews these developments and their implications for trade and future trade negotiations. The WTO …
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Despite the presence of food miles labels and carbon labels on the market for many years, relatively little data is available on how consumers respond to these labels. It is one thing to show people saying in surveys they will use carbon labels, and quite another to have evidence of people...
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In the mid-2000’s, Goldman Sachs identified two groups of emerging economies known as the BRICs and the Next-11. Primarily selected on the basis of having large populations, these countries were heralded as the growth centres of the future with the potential to stimulate increased demand for a...
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In a meta-analysis of trade policy models, Hess and von Cramon-Taubadel (2008) use over 5800 simulated welfare effects … conclude that meta-analysis can provide insights into the behaviour of trade policy models beyond what is possible with …
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