Shyamal Chowdhury, Nicholas Minot, David Orden, Serge Rey, Devesh Roy
for comments on an earlier version.
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution (2007)
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution (2007)
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution (2007)
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution (2007)
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
Narrod, Clare, Roy, Devesh, Okello, Julius, Avendano, Belem, Rich, Karl
"Many developing countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. Accessing developed country...
An analytical framework (2007)
Nicholas Minot, Devesh Roy, Chapter Introduction
high-value agriculture and modern marketing channels on poverty:
Essays in Trade and Development (2004)
This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use...
Essays in Trade and Development (2004)
This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use...
Essays on trade and development [electronic resource] / (2004)
Thesis research directed by: Economics.
Essays on trade and development (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential...
Aaditya Mattoo, Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. AGOA expands the scope of preferential access of...
Trade liberalization and food security in Nepal
Pyakuryal, Bishwambher, Thapa, Y. B., Roy, Devesh
"Among South Asian countries, Nepal has liberalized most extensively during the 1980s and 1990s on both fronts, domestic and external. Nepal is a least developed country with a gross national product...
Food policy liberalization in Bangladesh: how the government and the markets delivered
Chowdhury, Nuimuddin, Farid, Nasir, Roy, Devesh
"Three factors, advent of new technology (HYV), development of infrastructure and market liberalization working in tandem have delivered favorable food security outcomes for Bangladesh. Bangladesh's...
Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle: Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?
Devesh Roy, Arvind Subramanian
This paper examines different explanations-initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions-of the Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on...
Diversification in Indian agriculture towards high-value crops: The role of smallholders
Birthal, Pratap Singh, Joshi, P.K., Roy, Devesh, Thorat, Amit
"Agricultural diversification towards high-value crops can potentially increase farm incomes, especially in a country like India where demand for high-value food products has been increasing more...
Food safety requirements in African green bean exports and their impact on small farmers:
Okello, Julius Juma, Narrod, Clare, Roy, Devesh
"Many African countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products, in an effort to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. However, in order to...
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its rules of origin : generosity undermined?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Roy, Devesh, Subramanian, Arvind
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed into American law on May 18, 2000, is a major plank of U.S. initiatives toward the African continent. The Act aims broadly at improving economic...
The marginalization of Africa in world trade:
Bora, Saswati, Bouet, Antoine, Roy, Devesh
"In recent years, trade in Africa has assumed greater importance as a means of alleviating poverty, especially since the initiation of the Doha Round for development. At the same time, skepticism...
Narrod, Clare, Roy, Devesh, Okello, Julius, Avendaño, Belem, Rich, Karl
"Many developing countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. Accessing developed country...
Diversification in Indian agriculture towards high-value crops: the role of smallholders
Birthal, P.S., Joshi, P.K., Roy, Devesh, Thorat, Amit
"Agricultural diversification towards high-value crops can potentially increase farm incomes, especially in a country like India where demand for high-value food products has been increasing more...
The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and Its Rules of Origin: Generosity Undermined?
Devesh Roy, Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
Bouet, Antoine, Mishra, Santosh, Roy, Devesh
"This paper addresses the question of whether Africa is an undertrading continent. We answer this question using a much-improved data set for obtaining predicted trade and by employing methods that...
National Treatment and the optimal regulation of environmental externalities
We analyze the role of National Treatment in the regulation of environmental product standards for an open economy. A social planner uses product standards to control emissions from the consumption...
Summary In spite of being the second largest horticultural producer in the world, India is a failed exporter mainly because of the inability to meet the food safety standards. Hence, successes in...
Public-private partnerships and collective action in high value fruit and vegetable supply chains
Narrod, Clare, Roy, Devesh, Okello, Julius, Avendaño, Belem, Rich, Karl, Thorat, Amit
Accessing developed country food markets entails meeting stringent food safety requirements. Food retailers impose protocols relating to pesticide residues, field and pack house operations, and...
Okello, Julius Juma, Narrod, Clare, Roy, Devesh
Many African countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. Accessing developed country markets...
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution
To control tailpipe pollution, governments often use environmental product standards and consumption taxes in conjunction (for example, the use of fuel economy standards and gasoline taxes to...
Trade protection and tax evasion: evidence from Kenya, Mauritius and Nigeria
Trade protection and tax evasion: evidence from Kenya, Mauritius and Nigeria