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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 …

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Agriculture, Developing Countries, And The WTO Millennium Round

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

liberalize farm trade in the next WTO round follow the same pattern as the Uruguay Round, or might a more radical approach be … required to bring agriculture more into the WTO mainstream? The question is explored from the viewpoint of developing countries …

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Peculiarities of Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement

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

unwilling to bring a WTO-inconsistent trade measure into conformity. Apart from the fact that the procedure for triggering the … trade retaliation that WTO may permit under certain conditions. Both efficiency and equity concerns are raised. The Paper … concludes with some suggestions for reforming this part of WTO dispute resolution during the review of the Dispute Settlement …

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

the WTO’s Doha round. The results suggest moving to free global merchandise trade would boost real incomes in sub …

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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

the WTO may add to that difficulty. New agricultural biotechnologies could ease that situation. The adoption and spread of …

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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform: What’s at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

merchandise trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda …

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Domestic and Trade Policy for Central and East European Agriculture

Karp, Larry; Stefanou, Spiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

After a brief period of liberal agricultural policies, Central and East European (CEE) countries have begun to rely increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies. Scarce government funds could be better used to...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...

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Income Contingent Loans for Drought Relief: Delivering better outcomes for farmers and taxpayers

Botterill, Linda C.; Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Australia’s National Drought Policy is considered to be one of the most advanced in the world, recognising as it does the reality of climate and focusing on adapting farm management to climatic uncertainty rather than simply subsidising agriculture in low rainfall areas. But while the...

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