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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey

Larson, Donald F.; Martin, Will; Sahin, Sebnem; Tsigas, … - 2014

In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for … Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the … essay traces the influences the Turkey-European Union economic institutions have had on agricultural policies and the …

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Trade Reform and Household Welfare : The Case of Mexico

Ianchovichina, Elena; Nicita, Alessandro; Soloaga, Isidro - 2001

The authors use a two-step, computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico's potentially unilateral tariff liberalization. First, they use a computable general equilibrium model provided by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) as the new price generator. Second, they apply...

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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2012

The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions...

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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges

Ferrantino, Michael Joseph; Gillson, Ian; Schmidt, Gabriela - 2016

This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff schedule through 2020, would raise goods imports by...

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The World Trade Organization's Doha Cotton Initiative : A Tale of Two Issues

Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2012

Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...

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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P. - 2013

, empirically-based assessment of ways that Turkey exercised trade policy flexibilities during the global economic crisis of 2008 …-11. First, and despite multilateral and customs union commitments that might limit changes to applied tariffs, Turkey made … manufacturing imports and 10 percent of import product lines. Second, Turkey's cumulative application of temporary trade barrier …

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Does Tariff Liberalization Increase Wage Inequality? Some Empirical Evidence

Milanović, Branko; Squire, Lyn - 2012

The objective of the paper is to answer an often asked question: If tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality? The authors consider two types of wage inequality: between occupations (skills premium) and between industries. They use two large databases of wage inequality that...

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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant

Ianchovichina, Elena; Ivanic, Maros - 2014

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …

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Macro-Micro Feedback Links of Irrigation Water Management in Turkey

Çakmak, Erol H.; Dudu, Hasan; Saracoglu, Sirin - 2012

Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on …

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Governance, Corruption, and Trade in the Asia Pacific Region

Abe, Kazutomo; Wilson, John S. - 2012

This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation region. The authors find, based on a computable general equilibrium model, significant potential trade and welfare gains for Asia Pacific Economic...

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