contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

might have large positive effects whose true magnitude remains unknown due to unresolved econometric issues. "--World Bank …

the 5 percent generated by the most commonly used global model (GTAP) and reported in the paper's final section. "--World …

the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) process and the disciplines of the World Trade Organization. GATS can be … difficult to establish otherwise. "--World Bank web site …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

"The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …) with respect to the level of development. "--World Bank web site …

, affect the transformation of research and development into patents. "--World Bank web site …

Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results … food importers or are enjoying preferential access to agricultural markets of high-income countries. "--World Bank web site …