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in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world …
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eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many trade agreements, agriculture posed difficult political hurdles, which … agriculture sector. An applied general equilibrium framework is used to provide estimates of what including agriculture under the …
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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...
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Agriculture including food products is of particular interest for Ukraine. However, in free trade agreements involving … the European Union, agriculture is always given special treatment and subject to less and slower liberalization than other … accession affects agriculture in Ukraine, and how potential bilateral tariff cuts may interact with potential productivity gains …
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The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …
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policy instruments needed to tap mitigation opportunities in agriculture is incomplete. In particular, market … mitigation incentives, and missed mitigation opportunities in agriculture. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative … policies designed to jointly promote mitigation and co-benefits for agriculture and the environment …
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This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal'shorticulture industry. The authors apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-differences and matching difference-in-differences, to identify the effect...
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Wastewater use in agriculture is a growing practice worldwide. Drivers include increasing water stress, in part due to … importance of improving wastewater use in agriculture across the spectrum from lower to high-income countries. It presents an …
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