- Title
- Recent and prospective adoption of genetically modified cotton: a global computable general equilibrium analysis of economic impacts
- Creator
- Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto; Jackson, Lee
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/74196
- Identifier
- vital:7229
- Identifier
- ISSN:0013-0079
- Abstract
- The article discusses the study which examines the impact of the adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton on the global economy and on the developing countries. The standard GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) model of the global economy is used in the study to provide insights into the effects of governments allowing GM technology adoption in some countries without, and then with cotton trade and subsidy policy reform globally. The researchers conclude that developing country welfare could be enhanced more by allowing GM cotton adoption than by the removal of all cotton subsidies and tariffs. Furthermore, they believe that the study's results support the notion that the gains to developing countries from the Doha Cotton Initiative will be even greater if GM cotton is adopted first.
- Relation
- Economic Development And Cultural Change Vol. 56, no. 2 (2008), p. 265-296
- Rights
- Copyright University of Chicago Press
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1402 Applied Economics; International competition; Cotton trade; Agricultural innovations; Transgenic plants
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