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CARICOM’s COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE US IMPORT MARKET FOR SPECIALTY CROPS: A SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS

Lowe, Garfield G.; Davis, Carlton George - 2007

This paper is based on the premise that if CARICOM’s agricultural sector in general, and more specifically the export sub-sector, is to thrive in the rapidly changing trade environment there has to be a continuous systematic assessment of market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such...

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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY

Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007

illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …

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Estimation of Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the U.S. Soybean Trade Using Rolling TAR: The Relation with Market Structure

Nakajima, Toru - 2011

The threshold autoregressive (TAR) model by Enders and Granger (1998) and Enders and Siklos (2001) is a popular econometric model that estimates asymmetric price transmission (APT) with non-stationary time series data. However, empirical studies have not considered much the arbitrariness of...

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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea

Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - 2009

This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...

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The Integration of Tomato Markets in Ghana with and without Direct Trade Flows

Ihle, Rico; Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2009

Spatial market equilibrium theory views trade flow as the driving force behind market integration. We assess spatial price transmission between domestic tomato markets in Ghana to ascertain whether spatial price transmission veritably depends on direct trade between markets, or whether other...

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WHERE IS BASMATI RICE COMING FROM? A GLOBAL TRADE–RELATED OVERVIEW

Giraud, Georges; Pirzada, Syed Wajid H. - 2009

Rice contributes on 20% towards human calorie intake of the world population and 30% of Asian population. Worldwide paddy rice crop was 668 million tonnes in 2008, while rice trade during the year was 30 million tonnes. Trade represents 7% of overall rice cropping. Basmati rice export counts for...

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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?

Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009

implementation and individual countries’ production and marketing costs. …

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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Competitiveness and revealed comparative advantage in the SADC maize industry

Mutambatsere, Emelly - 2008

This paper evaluates the production and trade trends for maize and maize products in southern Africa, individual countries’ revealed comparative advantages in producing these products, and the expected implications of freer trade in this sector. The analysis employs mainly annual bilateral...

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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?

Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...

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