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This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds that the quality of policy increases, but at a diminishing rate, with the cumulative number of policy loans. Similar results hold for the cumulative number of conditions...
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This paper examines patterns of market integration for food commodities in India. First, it tests the extent of … integration. The results reveal that in India, food markets are imperfectly integrated across space, with the law of one price …
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the level of animal-source food intake, but they decrease the consumption share of fish. This suggests that increased …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … domestic food markets could magnify the initial shock. The analysis shows that, in the quarter following the outbreak of the … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …
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Using a new database on Chinese food standards, this paper estimates the impact of volunta-ry and mandatory standards … on its agricultural and food exports. The dataset covers seven Chinese products from 1992 to 2008. The findings here …
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impact of oil price on biofuel expansion, and subsequently, on food supply. The study shows that a 65 percent increase in oil … price would reduce global food supply through direct impacts as well as through diversion of food commodities and cropland …
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This paper shows that in theory and BLS microdata, the prices of imported goods respond to the exchange rates (ER) of the producer's foreign competitors. In contrast, standard models have no role for competitors'ERs. Excluding the effects of competitors' exchange rates typically biases upwards...
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because of the existence of significant subsidies on imports of petroleum products. Subsidies on imported petroleum products …
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In the last decade Morocco undertook substantial, if gradual, trade liberalization by reducing tariffs, reforming trade regulations and signing free and preferential trade agreements with several regions and countries, including the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab countries....
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imports. These findings are important, as recent studies point toward a significant positive effect of imported inputs on …
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