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Financial constraints and international trade with endogenous mode of competition:
Bouët, Antoine; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015
of trade. By increasing the cost of external finance, a financial shock increases the financial cost of exporting and … reduces firms’ production capacities and exports (intensive margin). By making it more difficult to engage in a (highly …
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The quiet revolution in staple food value chains: Enter the dragon, the elephant, and the tiger
Reardon, Thomas (contributor); Chen, Kevin Z. (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is a top priority on the global agenda for sustainable and inclusive development. This task is especially formidable in Asia, where more than two-thirds of the world’s poor and malnourished people live. Food prices in Asia are projected to remain high...
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Policy distortions in the segmented rice market:
Rakotoarisoa, Manitra A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
countries have distorted rice trade. This study estimates the impact of rice policy distortions on developing countries' rice … production and trade potential. Because rice markets are highly segmented, major rice types are differentiated to estimate the … trade would also be affected by a reduction of the high over-quota tariff." from Authors' Abstract …
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Is SAFTA trade creating or trade diverting?: A computable general equilibrium assessment with a focus on Sri Lanka
Bouet, Antoine; Mevel, Simon; Thomas, Marcelle - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in terms of size, income, and structure of trade and protection. Using … equilibrium global model, this study examines the effects of SAFTA on trade and net income in the region. The magnitude of the …. Exempting sensitive products from the agreement limits gains from trade for the lower-middle-income members of SAFTA but may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521827
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2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); …
This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa: Achievements and challenges
Kherallah, Mylene (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies....
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Structure and performance of Ethiopia’s coffee export sector:
Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Kuma, Tadesse; Nyarko, Yaw - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee producer, over the period 2003 to 2013. We find an evolving policy environment leading to structural changes in the export sector, including an elimination of vertical...
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Does freer trade really lead to productivity growth?: Evidence from Africa
Bresnahan, Lauren; Coxhead, Ian; Foltz, Jeremey; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013
We use firm-level data from the World Bank’s Regional Program on Enterprise Development, covering Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania for 1991–2003. Econometric results confirm well-known relationships, such as a positive association between export intensity and TFP, which implies...
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Summary of Structure and performance of Ethiopia’s coffee export sector:
Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Kuma, Tadesse; Nyarko, Yaw - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africa’s most important coffee producer, over the period 2003 to 2013. We find an evolving policy environment that leads to structural changes in the export sector, including an elimi-nation of vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132776
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Two-tier asymmetric information as a motive for trade, trade policies, and inefficient trade agreements:
Bouët, Antoine; Laborde Debucquet, David; Martimort, David - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
policies, and of the inefficiency of trade negotiations. We consider a general equilibrium model of international trade with … two identical countries, two commodities, a terms-of-trade externality, and a double-tier informational problem. First … trade appears. The informationally sensitive sector becomes an import sector and the more so, the greater the political …
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