than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade …

This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a …

would also facilitate a reduction in inflation, which would moderate gold imports and favorably impact real exchange rate …

In this paper, the behavior of China’s imports during the period 1980-92 is studied. The estimation of cointegration … and error correction mechanisms enables the separation of the long-run and short-run determinants of imports in China. The … estimated cointegrating vector using Johansen’s cointegration approach shows that, in the long run, China’s imports are …