Download or read book Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries written by Niek Koning and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in agricultural commodities. Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries is the first book to address important questions relating to this subject. The authors are world renowned experts on international trade and development and they address a very important and timely issue.

Download or read book Agricultural Trade Liberalization in a New Trade Round written by Merlinda D. Ingco and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This collection highlights the main trade issues of importance to different regions of the world.

Download or read book Agricultural Trade Liberalization written by Ian Goldin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Development and Trade Liberalisation written by Renuka Mahadevan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings empirical analysis to bear on the policy debate on the economic and environmental impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation on a small developing country, represented by the island of Fiji. It is timely because many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are faced with challenges in the years ahead as a result of globalisation and liberalisation of world trade. Some ACP countries, including Fiji, have already signed an interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union to replace the Cotonou Agreement. Other future changes in the trading regime are likely to come from the eventual conclusion of the Doha Round. What is lacking in the current debate is solid empirical analysis to investigate the impacts of these policy changes. What little analysis has been carried out lumps developing countries into regional aggregates. Thus, it may be argued that these studies do not take account of the individual countries' circumstances. The book focuses on the sugar industry to discuss the broad topic of agricultural reform. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to support the analysis and discussion in the areas of structural reform in the sugar and other industries as well as the effects of trade liberalisation strategies. The empirical investigation is carried out using appropriate econometric techniques and a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The material is presented in such a way that the non-technical reader will also benefit from the discussion, which has policy making as its focus. It should appeal to a wide readership including policymakers, policy analysts, researchers in industry and the public sector, as well as postgraduate students in various fields such as agriculture and natural resources, international trade, and economic modelling.

Download or read book Implications of Agricultural Trade Liberalization for the Developing Countries written by Antonio Salazar Pessôa Brandão and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global trade liberalization-- reducing both negative and positive protection in line with the Dunkel proposal-- would gain developing countries an estimated $60 billion a year.

Download or read book Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa written by Nicholas Minot and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural trade liberalization has been resisted by many developing-country policymakers, including those in the Middle East and North Africa, for fear it could hurt domestic farmers and exacerbate poverty. The authors of Trade Liberalization and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa argue, however, that this concern about liberalization might be misplaced. Drawing on case studies from Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia, the study uses household survey data and computable general equilibrium models to simulate the effects of various liberalization scenarios on different types of households in these countries, especially poor households. The results indicate that agricultural trade barriers are not an effective means of protecting the poor and that the benefits from many forms of agricultural trade liberalization to the region's consumers outweigh the costs to producers. If complemented with other domestic programs-including agricultural research and extension, information services, disease control, and social safety nets-the reforms have the potential to reduce poverty in these nations. The study findings are a valuable resource for policymakers and development specialists evaluating the role trade liberalization can play in economic development and poverty reduction.

Download or read book Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Developing Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Agriculture in Smaller Developing Countries written by Andreas Schneider and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Towards Free Trade in Agriculture written by Kirit S. Parikh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture seems to be a difficult sector to manage for most governments. Developing countries face tough dilemmas in deciding on appropriate price poli eies to stimulate food production and maintain stable, preferably low, prices for poor consumers. Governments in developed countries face similar difficult deci sions. They are called upon to give income guarantees to farmers whose incomes are unstable and relatively low when compared to those in the nonagricultural sector. These guarantees often lead to ever-increasing budgetary outlays and unwanted agricultural surpluses. High prices make new investments and the application of new technologies more attractive than world prices warrant, and a process is set in motion where technological innovation attains amomenturn of its own, in turn requiring price policies that maintain their rates of return. Surpluses are disposed of with subsidies in domestic markets or in the international market. Price competition reduces the market share of other exporters, who may be efficient producers, unless they are willing to engage in subsidy competition. This lowers export earnings and farm incomes or depletes the public resources of developing countries that export competing products. Retaliatory measures have led to frictions and further distortions of world prices. Every so orten the major agricultural exporters - the USA, the EC, Aus tralia, or Canada - accuse one another of unfair intervention. Though they have agreed to discuss agricultural trade liberalization under GATT negotiations, if anything, the expenditure on farm support has continued to increase in both the EC and the USA.

Download or read book An Integrated Approach to Agricultural Trade and Development Issues written by Robert Scollay and published by United Nations, Conference on Trade and Development. This book was released on 2001 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis has been widely used to study the economic effects of trade liberalisation initiatives. The paper reports on the possibility of extending the use of this methodology to explore the link between trade and development. It focuses on the impact of trade liberalisation measures on income distribution. The paper reviews studies of agricultural trade liberalisation within the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, but it is suggested that the approach may have a wider application.

Download or read book Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries written by Alex F. McCalla and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage, due at least in part to their large and growing share of world trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries translate into a final agreement that is truly more development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing countries really get out of it. This two volume set seeks to answer these questions. This volume (Volume 2) addresses the question of how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect developing countries by quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform. It presents several different approaches to modeling the effects of the outcome of negotiations, and then investigates why these (and other) modeling efforts produce such divergent results. Volume 1 is issues-oriented. It takes up some key questions in the negotiations, setting the stage with a historical overview of the Doha Development Agenda to help identify issues of most significance to developing countries, and then explores select issues in greater depth. Aimed at policymakers and stakeholders, this two-volume effort puts into the public domain important analytical work that will improve the chance for a pro-development outcomes of the Doha round negotiations.

Download or read book The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Agriculture in Developing Countries written by Martin Khor and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Development and Trade of Pacific Rim Countries written by Kym Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Environmental Quality written by Carlisle Ford Runge and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Agriculture and Development written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings of the OECD Global Forum on Agriculture brought together experts from both developing and developed countries and from both the agriculture and development communities. The papers presented explore why policy coherence is important, how it affects global agricultural trade, and whether it can help reduce poverty and hunger.

Download or read book Agricultural Development And World Trade Organisations written by M.L. Narasaiah and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, The Uruguay Round and Agriculture Reform, Opening Markets for Agriculture, The Future of Agricultural Trade, WTO Agricultural Negotiations, Developing Countries and the WTO Agricultural Negotiations, Export Subsidies, Market Access, The WTO is Born, The Marrakesh Declaration, What is the WTO?, Overview of WTO s First Year, Overview of WTO s First Two Years, The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, WTO Negotiations on Basic Telecommunications, New Agenda of the WTO, Beyond the Uruguay Round, The Uruguay Round, Developing Countries and the Uruguay Round, The WTO and the Developing Countries, The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) Agreement and the Developing Countries, International Trade with the Consumer s Money, WTO Has Delivered , Developing Countries After the Uruguay Round, Africa to Gain More, Defining the Singapore Message to WTO, Is Copyright on the Wrong Track?, Give Developing Countries A More Favourable Deal, High World Trade Growth Vs. Output, Winners and Losers, Trading Towards Peace, Trade and Labour Standards, Free Trade as Pacemaker, Population Gro

Download or read book Trade Liberalisation written by Ian Goldin and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; World Bank. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: