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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, some governments have implemented export restrictions and other trade policy measures to secure their food supply.
Lately, India’s trade policy seem to lack a vision. After actively pursuing it for over a decade, India decided against joining RCEP at the eleventh hour.
Trade, policy, and food security
How can decisionmakers resolve the tension between optimal long-run policies and short-run initiatives to address food security concerns?
The multilateral trading system is on the verge of a crisis arising from, among others, the dysfunction of the WTO as a forum for trade liberalization and trade related rule-making.
Export taxes have been used in many countries. The 2007–2008 food price crisis shed light on export policies’ dangerous consequences for food security during periods of price spikes.
Depuis juillet 2019, et un sommet de l'Union Africaine à Niamey (Niger), la Zone de Libre-Echange Continentale Africaine (ZLECA) est dans sa phase opérationnelle, après la signature tardive du traité par le Nigeria et le Bénin, et la ratification
Gender and trade in Africa: Case study of Niger
The evidence on the impact of trade liberalization on gender inequalities is not fully established yet, nor is the impact of gender inequalities on trade policy outcomes.
Gender and trade in Africa: Case study of Niger
Trade is positively associated with economic growth as it expands market opportunities, increases income earnings, and improves livelihoods.
Intra-household resource allocation when food prices soar: Impacts on child growth in Indonesia
An unanticipated spike in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor with lasting consequences, but parents can protect the most vulnerable within the family by distributing scarce food to minimize adverse impacts.
The trade war between the United States and China involves the two largest players in the world economy (i.e., the two countries with the largest GDPs, and the largest exporters and importers).
Intra-African trade integration
Regional integration arrangements have proliferated across Africa over the last 40 years.
Africa in global agricultural trade
It is commonly agreed that trade integration can contribute to the acceleration of economic growth and to poverty alleviation.
This is the second annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM), a fl agship publication that is part of a collaborative initiative between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Ru
This chapter uses a statistical approach to explore African agricultural competitiveness. We illustrate competitiveness through all three means mentioned above: microeconomic drivers, macroeconomic drivers, and impact.
Regional integration is often seen as a powerful development strategy that provides a large parallel market for the development of new industries and minimizes external shocks through increased national income and bargaining power (Balassa 1961).
The second annual Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor assesses emerging and long-term trends and drivers shaping Africa’s trade in agricultural products and evaluates the possible impacts of current trade tensions.
Philippine rice trade liberalization: Impacts on agriculture and the economy, and alternative policy actions
Quantitative restriction (QR) on rice import has been a longstanding instrument of the Philippine government that regulated the importation of rice, protected rice farmers and supported the drive for rice self-sufficiency of the country.
Evaluating the welfare effects of nonfarm enterprises on rural households in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the country with the largest rural population share in the East Asia and Pacific region.