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Authors: Valenzuela, Ernesto , Anderson, Kym , Hertel, Thomas
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Economics and Economic Policy Vol. 4, no. 4 (2008), p. 395-420
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Description: The WTO’s Doha Development Agenda has generated demand for estimates of the potential economic consequences of global trade reform. Recent improvements in the GTAP dataset have provided a much better representation of tariff restrictions as of 2001. However, despite its use by most global trade modelers, substantial differences in results emerge from different computable general equilibrium exercises. To help understand these differences, this paper examines the sensitivity of full global and regional trade liberalization results from the GTAP model, using the GTAP version 6.1 database, to different assumptions about factor mobility, fiscal neutrality, macro-economic closure, and trade (Armington) elasticities.

Authors: Anderson, Kym , Kurzweil, Martin , Will, M. , Sandri, Damiano , Valenzuela, Ernesto
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: World Trade Review Vol. 7, no. 4 (2008), p.
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Description: Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. Especially in developing countries, non-agricultural policies indirectly impact agricultural and food markets. Empirical analysis aimed at monitoring distortions to agricultural incentives thus need to examine both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies and quantitative restrictions, plus domestic taxes or subsidies on farm outputs or inputs and consumer subsidies for food staples. This paper addresses the practical methodological issues that need to be faced when attempting to undertake such a measurement task in developing countries. The approach is illustrated in two ways: by presenting estimates of nominal and relative rates of assistance to farmers in China for the period 1981 to 2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide computable general equilibrium model of the effects on agricultural versus non-agricultural markets of the project's measured distortions globally as of 2004.

Authors: Anderson, Kym , Kurzweil, Marianne , Martin, Will , Sandri, Damiano , Valenzuela, Ernesto
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies p.
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Authors: Anderson, Kym , Valenzuela, Ernesto , Jackson, Lee
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Economic Development And Cultural Change Vol. 56, no. 2 (2008), p. 265-296
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Description: 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.

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