Contingent trade policy and economic efficiency

Economic efficiency of alcohol policy

The production, sale and use of alcohol has proliferated since the first recordings of alcohol use in the middle ages. Today, alcohol is consumed by over 2 billion people, with global sales of alcoholic beverages in excess of $US967 billion (year 2005 value). Alcohol has many positive features, including individual pleasure to the drinker; a lubricant in the context of socializing and celebrati...

South African Trade Policy Matters : Trade Performance and Trade Policy

South African trade policy has exerted a major influence on the composition and aggregate growth of trade. In the Apartheid period, trade protection seriously impeded both exports and imports, and the economy depended on favorable global commodity price trends to avoid running into an external constraint. South Africa developed a comparative advantage in capital-intensive primary and manufactur...

The impact of the financial and economic crisis on world trade and trade policy

Methodological bases of estimating the efficiency of organizational and economic mechanism of regulatory policy in agriculture

Ukrainian agriculture creates 12-14% of GDP. Ensuring the conditions for sustainable economic development implies the use of adequate mechanisms for regulating economic processes by the government. In the process of formation and implementation of the organizational and economic mechanism of regulatory policy, a system of indicators plays an important role in assessing the impact of such policy...

Economic and health efficiency of education funding policy.

Public spending programmes to reduce poverty, expand primary education and improve the economic status of women are recommended priorities of aid agencies and are now gradually being reflected in third world governments' policies, in response to aid conditions imposed by the World Bank and OECD countries. However outcomes fall short of aspiration. This paper shows that donors' lending policies,...