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    Improving the readiness of A&F industries to the ASEAN integration

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015
    This Policy Note presents the results of interviews with private stakeholders in the agriculture and fisheries sector to get their perception of the sector's readiness to the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Their overriding message is for the government to provide stronger and more effective support to local producers to better prepare them for the AEC.
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    Philippine agriculture's institutional structure of governance: A critique

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997
    This paper aims to analyse the institutional issues affecting the cost and effectiveness of governance of the agriculture, natural resource and environment sectors in the Philippines. What direction institutional reforms should take is proposed.
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    Preferential trading agreements and agricultural liberalization in East and Southeast Asia

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    This paper analyses how various preferential trading arrangements deal with agriculture liberalization and examines a few case studies highlighting the provisions on agriculture. It assesses the effect of preferential trade agreements on agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN.
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    Philippine agriculture to 2020: threats and opportunities from global trade

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Agriculture confronts several challenges over the decade, i.e., meeting burgeoning food requirements with limited farm land, and balancing the need to import with the provision of livelihoods. The current policy regime leans heavily toward import substitution, with supply side interventions to boost production, combined with protectionism toward sensitive products (particularly rice).
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    An estimation of tariff pass-through in Tunisia

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015
    It is important to evaluate the net welfare effects of liberalisation policies in specific countries, yet a first step to accomplish this task is to analyse the extent to which changes in trade barriers are transmitted to changes in domestic prices.
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    Potential gains by Uganda and India by including coffee in the Duty Free Tariff Preference Scheme

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    India is one of the major players in the international coffee market as per its volume of production, domestic consumption and export.
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    The impact of trade liberalisation on South African agricultural productivity

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    A challenge facing South Africa is to ensure that agriculture continues to contribute to the national policy objectives of economic growth. This study attempts to examine the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa’s agricultural sector.
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    South Africa and Chile - agricultural trade relationship

    National Agricultural Marketing Council, South Africa, 2010
    The objective of this paper is to uncover areas where South Africa could potentially increase its trade with Chile and what policy lessons can be taken from the Chilean experience. The paper indicates that South Africa and Chile followed similar paths in terms of the evolution of their agricultural policy, where both countries underwent significant liberalisation in their agricultural sectors.
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    Choosing sensitive agricultural products in trade negotiations

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2008
    In the Doha negotiations, there have been widespread demands for exceptions from, or flexibility in, the application of the agricultural tariff formulas. This working paper sheds light on some of the choices involved in defining flexibilities in trade negotiations. Mainly, two key questions are considered in the paper:
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    Export performance following trade liberalisation: some patterns and policy perspectives

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2008
    This report from UNCTAD examines Africa’s export performance after trade liberalisation to draw lessons for use in the design of future development strategies. Liberalisation over the last 25 years has removed policy barriers that were seen to inhibit export performance. Despite this the level and composition of exports has not changed.

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