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  • Inequality and poverty impacts of trade distortions in Mozambique (English)

    Although Mozambique has considerable agricultural potential, rural poverty remains extremely high. This paper examines the extent to which global and domestic price distortions affect agricultural production...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55942 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arndt,Channing,Thurlow, James

  • Global poverty and distributional impacts of agricultural distortions (English)

    This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agricultural and other trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55935 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bussolo,Maurizio,De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E.,Medvedev,Denis

  • Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina (English)

    Using the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions, this chapter studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both global and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55944 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cicowiez,Martin,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

  • The poverty impacts of global commodity trade liberalization (English)

    This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55936 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hertel,Thomas W.,Keeney,Roman Michael

  • Would trade liberalization help the poor of Brazil? (English)

    This paper addresses the potential effects of world agricultural trade liberalization on poverty and regional income distribution in Brazil, using an inter-regional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55946 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento De Souza,Horridge,Jonathan Mark

  • Liberalizing trade, and its impact on poverty and inequality in Nicaragua (English)

    The Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations stalled in 2008 owing in no small degree to a lack of agreement on the terms of substantially reducing trade-distorting support for agricultural products...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55947 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sanchez, Marco V.,Vos,Robert

  • Agricultural price distortions, poverty, and inequality in the Philippines (English)

    This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55940 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cororaton,Caesar B.,Corong,Erwin Lucban,Cockburn,John Murray

  • Agricultural distortions, poverty, and inequality in South Africa (English)

    South Africa has rapidly reduced trade barriers since the end of Apartheid, yet agricultural production and exports have remained sluggish. Also, poverty and unemployment have risen and become increasingly...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55943 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Herault,Nicolas J.,Thurlow, James

  • Agricultural distortion patterns since the 1950s : what needs explaining? (English)

    This paper summarizes a new database that sheds light on the impact of trade-related policy developments over the past half century on distortions to agricultural incentives and thus also to consumer prices...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55950 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Croser,Johanna Louise,Sandri,Damiano,Valenzuela,Ernesto

  • Determinants of farm policies in the United States, 1996-2008 (English)

    This paper focuses on the political economy of United States (U.S.) farm policy since the Uruguay round trade negotiations concluded in 1994 and established the World Trade Organization (WTO). The continued...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55955 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Orden,David R.,Blandford,David,Josling,Timothy E.

  • Do trade agreeements reduce the volatility of agricultural distortions? (English)

    The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural...

    Document Type: Report No.: 55961 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Tschopp,Jeanne

  • Political economy of agricultural trade interventions in Africa (English)

    This paper uses new data on agricultural policy interventions to examine the political economy of agricultural trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Historically, African governments have discriminated...

    Document Type: Report No.: 55960 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bates,Robert H.,Block,Steven