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panel estimates indicate that firms' import response to tariffs is particularly adverse for products associated with green …
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Concerns have been raised about the impact of rising food prices worldwide on the poor. To assess the (short term) impact of rising food prices in any particular country it is necessary to look at both the impact on food producers (who benefit from an increase in prices) and food consumers (who...
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Concerns have been raised about the impact of rising food prices worldwide on the poor. To assess the (short term) impact of rising food prices in any particular country it is necessary to look at both the impact on food producers (who benefit from an increase in prices) and food consumers (who...
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Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in efforts to mitigate them, so far there is very little hard evidence on the impacts of trade facilitation efforts. This paper exploits a dramatic reduction in the rate of physical inspections by Albanian...
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specific tariffs have resulted in some previous efforts that have simply ignored the specific tariffs. This is the first paper … to accurately assess the tariff rates. The authors show that ignoring the specific tariffs results in an underestimate of … places Russia's tariffs at a level slightly higher than other middle-income countries and considerably higher than the OECD …
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strategic trade policy, the authors show that the impact of a negative rainfall shock on optimal import tariffs is generally … reducing import tariffs. These findings are robust to alternative assumptions about market structure and the timing of the game …. Using detailed panel data on applied tariffs and rainfall for 70 nations, the authors find robust evidence that rainfall …
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countries, both directly and through the price-depressing effect of agricultural support policies. High tariffs--in both rich …. The authors assess the impact of reducing tariffs and domestic support in a sample of 119 countries. Least developed … other developing economies in terms of the impact of a 50 percent cut in tariffs as compared to a 50 percent cut in domestic …
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neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference … that export their staple food …
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There has been much concern about Africa's recent export performance. Even though tariff and non-tariff barriers to … a narrow range of primary commodities for export earnings. The author looks at factors that affect the export …, ownership, and education of the manager), policy-related variables also affect export performance. Manufacturing enterprises are …
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