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Agriculturally Related Environmental Issues in Free Trade Agreements [PDF]

The consideration of environmental matters in trade liberalization agreements has become an issue since they were included in NAFTA and recognized Uruguay round agreement that created the WTO.
Colyer, Dale
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Market regulation and productivity: The case of the Canadian Wheat Board

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Changes to regulatory environments influence firm‐level incentives, which can move the productivity frontier or reposition firms within an existing frontier. Estimating causal effects of policy changes requires a credible counterfactual for productivity in the absence of policy change.
Ryan Cardwell, Pascal L. Ghazalian
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Trade liberalization, social policies and health: an empirical case study. [PDF]

Global Health, 2015
McNamara C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Competing Industrial Standards and the Impact of Trade Liberalization [PDF]

The main purpose of this study is to illustrate, with simple trade theory, the relationship between competing industrial standards and trade liberalization.
Iwasa, Kazumichi, Kikuchi, Toru
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Global agricultural value chains and food prices

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
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Trade liberalization and total factor productivity in Brazil: A vecm modeling. [PDF]

PLoS One
Oliveira de Almeida E, Cateia JV, Barbosa W, Ataides de Freitas C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does trade liberalization reduce child mortality in low- and middle-income countries? A synthetic control analysis of 36 policy experiments, 1963-2005. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med, 2018
Barlow P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Trade in Financial Services--Has the IMF Been Involved Constructively? [PDF]

This paper considers the key policy issues related to liberalization of trade in financial services that the IMF should be concerned with, and the role the IMF has played in advising on policies related to trade in financial services in its bilateral and
Robert M Stern
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When wine walked into grocery stores: Examining the (un)intended economic consequences of wine Sale reform in Tennessee

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Alcohol policy liberalization is a contentious issue in the United States, including debates over whether grocery stores should be allowed to sell wine. This issue reflects a dilemma between accommodating consumer convenience, promoting wine industry growth, and generating tax revenue, versus concerns about potential harm to liquor stores ...
Jiayu Sun, Vincenzina Caputo, Aaron J. Staples, Achilleas Vassilopoulos   +3 more
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Trade Liberalization, Inequality and Poverty in Brazilian States. [PDF]

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and poverty using detailed micro-data across Brazilian states, from 1987 to 2005. Results suggest that Brazilian states that were more exposed to
Castilho, Marta, Menéndez, Marta, Sztulman, Aude   +2 more
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