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Subsidies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes?
Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in world prices. This means they are...
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EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Peter DraperFor the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
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A Transatlantic Divide?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
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Trade Policy in Asia
By: Razeen SallyTrade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
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South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
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Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
Tags: agricultureThe Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
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Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries
In this paper we empirically discuss the question whether or not debt relief in the past fifteen years has been economically rational. Analysing the...
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FTAs and the Prospects for Regional Integration in Asia
Tags: ASEAN Asia China free trade agreements India Japan liberalisation South Korea trade policy WTOBy: Razeen SallyTrade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/WTO commitments, to discriminatory FTAs....