A substantial literature has analyzed the challenges around weather index insurance, yet an important design issue has been generally overlooked.
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The use of public food stocks for food security purposes is a hotly debated topic in agricultural negotiations within the World Trade Organization (WTO) (see Díaz-Bonilla, 2014, 2017a and 2017b).
With the stagnation of the Doha Round, the WTO has started a process known as “early harvest”.
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Some thoughts and proposals for a way forward
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This book focuses on presenting some of the main themes that are pending in the WTO negotiations, with an emphasis on the views and perspectives of the Southern Cone countries.
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Export subsidies after Nairobi
The first provision on export subsidies appeared in the first paragraph of Article XVI of The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947 (GATT).
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Export taxes have been used in many countries.
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This paper develops a novel methodology to estimate the degree of spatial basis risk for an arbitrary rainfall index insurance instrument.
Is MERCOSUR’s External Agenda Pro-Poor?
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Commodity prices, trade, and poverty in Uruguay
On the production economics of cattle
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