The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial expansion, observed rapid urbanization, and government programs to provide access to water to millions of previously excluded people. The...

many of the import competing sectors in Maroccan agriculture are protected while water in irrigated agriculture is priced below its marginal value product. Establishing a water market is this pre-trade reform environment can be welfare decreasing. Further, as the shadow price of water is...

The effect on production, trade and well-being from the granting of market access, removing export subsidies, and eliminating trade-distorting forms of direct support to farmers in WTO member countries is analysed from a world-wide general equilibrium perspective using the most recently...

Introduction: Orientation and Focus -- The Preliminaries -- The Two Sector Ramsey Model -- The Three-Sector Ramsey Model -- Extensions to the Three-Sector Model -- The Extended Three-Sector Model -- A Three-Sector #x2013; Two-Country World -- Data Issues and the Social Accounting Matrix -- Solution...

Table of Contents: Brief 1: The Impact of Climate Variability and Climate Change on Water and Food Outcomes: A Framework for Analysis by Claudia Ringer Brief 2: Vulnerability and the Impact of Climate Change in South Africa's Limpopo River Basin by Sharon Shewmake Brief 5: Measuring Ethiopian...

A dynamic general equilibrium model is constructed to analyze the effects of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) on the member countries as well as on the U.S. economy. By taking into account dynamic adjustments, we find that while the effects of MERCOSUR on its member countries' investment,...

Economy-wide and hydrological-crop models are combined to estimate and compare the economic impacts of current climate variability and future anthropogenic climate change in Zambia. Accounting for uncertainty, simulation results indicate that, on average, current variability reduces gross...

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run Dutch disease effects of public expenditure ignoring the possible long-term effects of alternative revenue-allocation options and the supply-side impact of royalty-financed public investments....