Browsing Scholarly Works, Global Issues Initiative by Issue Date
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Farm Policy Reform in the United States: Past Progress and Future Evolution
(Virginia Tech, 2007-10-29)This chapter examines the issues facing U.S. farm policy in 2007 and beyond in an historical context. Reforms of the main commodity programs along a cash-out and decoupling path peaked when prices were high in 1995-96. ... -
Technical Barriers Affecting Agricultural Exports from China: The Case of Fresh Apples
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2007-12)This report addresses technical barriers that limit the agricultural trade of China in the case of phytosanitary barriers to fresh apple exports. Apple production in China has increased substantially in recent years and ... -
Linking Risk and Economic Assessments in the Analysis of Plant Pest Regulations: The Case of U.S. Imports of Argentine Lemons
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2007-12)This study evaluates consideration to allow shipments of Argentine fresh lemons into the United States. Besides providing analysis of an on-going and still disputed systems approach, this case was viewed as a relevant test ... -
The Pending 2008 U.S. Farm Bill in Perspective
(Virginia Tech, 2008-01)This paper examines the issues facing U.S. farm policy in 2007 and beyond in an historical context. Reforms of the main commodity programs along a cash-out and decoupling path peaked when prices were high in 1995-96. Recent ... -
The Challenge Of Increasing Global Trade: How To Address Linkages And Barriers
(Virginia Tech, 2008-02-22)Two specific cases of trade regulation are examined in this presentation. In the case of avocados from Mexico, the U.S. market has been opened following more than a decade of related rule making. Substantial imports now ... -
Philippine Agricultural and Food Policies: Implications on Poverty and Income Distribution
(Virginia Tech, 2008-12)The objective of this presentation was to examine how trade policy affects food prices and poverty in the Philippines. -
APHIS Workshop on Avocado Model
(Virginia Tech, 2009-06-16)The goals of the workshop are: (a) to discuss and learn how to code the Mexican avocado model of Peterson and Orden (2008) and (b) to run the model under various model parameters and scenarios. -
A Review of Literature on the Economics of Invasive Species
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2009-09)There is increased demand within the regulatory processes of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a higher level of analysis that integrates pest risks with economic considerations. This paper reviews the ... -
Potential Fresh Apple Imports from China: A Preliminary Case Study
(Virginia Tech, 2010-02-26)This presentation considers the benefits of and possible obstacles to fresh apple imports from China. -
Using the Trans-log Expenditure Function to Endogenize New Market Access in Partial Equilibrium Models
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2011-08)While Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) utility functions are a common choice in empirical partial and general equilibrium models because they are parsimonious in the number of model parameters, they are not well ... -
Review of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA): What it means, where it is headed, and why it matters
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2011-09)Between November 30 2010 and January 4 2011, the Food Drug and Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), or HR 2751, was passed through the US governing bodies, representing the first large-scale change ... -
A Modeling Framework for Evaluating Economic Impacts of APHIS Import Regulations
(Virginia Tech, 2012-09-27)This presentation covers economics in regulatory decision making, a model framework, and a case study of the American beef market. -
Economic Impact Analysis of the Reduction in Sugar Tariffs Under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement: The Case of the Philippine Sugar Sector
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2013-09)The objective of this paper is to examine the potential effects on the Philippine economy as the government fulfills its sugar commitment. The paper utilizes three simulation models in the analysis: The GTAP model; a ... -
Cost and Benefit Analysis of Possible Philippine Participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(Virginia Tech, 2014-09-04)The objective of this presentation was to quantify the effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on trade, especially in terms of Philippine participation. -
Some Notes on the Economic Environment Affecting the Debate on the Agricultural Act of 2014
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2014-10)The recent U.S. farm bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 7, 2014 as the Agricultural Act of 2014. Traditionally, farm bills are passed every five years, but the recent bill, ... -
Potential Economic Effects on the Philippines of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2015-02)The TPP is a potential economic block in Asia Pacific. If the negotiations are successful, the TPP can have important implications for the Philippines whether it decides to join or not because countries in TPP are important ... -
Political Economy Of The 2014 Farm Bill
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06-11)This article assesses the political economy of the 2014 U.S. farm bill, with a focus on the farm support safety net. The farm bill secured substantial bipartisan majorities in a politically contentious Congress. Planned ... -
Assessing the Potential Economic and Poverty Effects of the National Greening Program
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11-10)This presentation assesses the potential economic and poverty effects of the National Greening Program in the Phillipines in 2012-2050. -
Potential Effects of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on the Philippine Economy
(Virginia Tech, 2015-12-01)This presentation estimates the potential effects of the reduction in RCEP tariffs and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in the Phillipines. -
Preliminary Report: Potential Economic Effects of the Reduction in Agricultural and Nonagricultural Trade Barriers in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
(Virginia Tech. Global Issues Initiative, 2016-10)The objective of this paper is to provide an assessment of the potential economic effects in the U.S. and EU28 of reducing the trade barriers between the two economies¹. A global computable general equilibrium (CGE) model ...
