Market Access Proposals for Non-Agricultural Products

The relative importance of global agricultural subsidies and market access

The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs puzzles many observers. To help explain that result, this paper first compares the OECD and model-based estimates of the extent of the producer distortions (leaving aside consumer distortions), and show...

Agricultural Market Access: A Moving Target in the WTO Negotiations?

This paper analyses the economic effects of different magnitudes of tariff cuts, different tariff cutting formulas, the implications of tariff capping as well as different numbers and width of tariff bands in the market access pillar of the Doha Round agricultural negotiations. The simulations are conducted with an extended version of the GTAP model and an extended version of the GTAP data base...

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Image Analysis for Agricultural Products and Processes

Variability of weed infestation needs to be assessed for site-specific weed management. Since manual weed sampling is too time consuming for prctical applications, a system for automatic weed sampling was developed. The system uses bispectral images, which are processed to derive shape features of the plants. The shape features are used for the discrimination of weed and crop species by using a...

‏‎facilitating lexical access for the fluent production of speech‎‏

‏‎the hypothesis is that recent and frequent exposure to lexical items leads to a more fluent production of speech in terms of rate of speech. to test the hypothesis , a one- way anova experimental design was carried out. 24 senior student of efl participated in a one-way interview test. data analyses revealed that those who were exposed frequently to the lexical items over a week prior to inte...