Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Prices and Trade written by Alberto Vald©?s and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an independent and comprehensive review of World Bank irrigation lending and policy between 1948 and 1993. The Bank's role in irrigation lending has been large--more than $30 billion (in current U.S. dollars) spread over some 600 projects. Only 200 projects have been in place long enough to be assessed. The overall performance record is good, but there is room for improvement. The report finds that there are still pervasive problems in maintenance and operation. Operating chaos prevails in most large canal systems in the humid tropics. In drier areas, drainage is the biggest environmental problem associated with irrigation. The author argues for upgrading existing systems, improving service, involving irrigators, and saving water where it is scarce.
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies written by Alberto Valdés and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 326. Describes the condition of young children in Sub-Saharan Africa, calls attention to their plight, and examines strategies for addressing their condition. The paper describes the World Bank's early childhood development initiative, which focuses on the neglected but critical development age group that falls between birth and school enrollment age and which regards child development as the holistic formation of the child, rather than an extension of traditional schooling downward.
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policy in Latin America During Major Policy Reforms written by Alberto Valdés and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 350. This paper uses an econometric analysis model to examine the distribution across different socioeconomic groups of Malawi's public spending on education. The analysis shows the changes in distribution before and after the country adopted a series of education reforms in 1994.
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Prices and Trade written by Alberto Valdes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies written by Alberto Valdés and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies written by Alberto Valdés and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Prices and Trade written by Alberto Valdés and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies written by Alberto Valdés and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surveillance of Agricultural Price and Trade Policies written by Alberto Valdés and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Reforms and Food Security written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between trade-related policy reforms and food security is of key concern to many developing countries. This publication sets out the findings of 15 country case studies from Cameroon, Chile, China, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. The coverage includes countries at different stages of development with the main focus on low-income countries that are likely to be at greater risk of food insecurity. The studies examine the impact of trade-related policy reforms on agricultural prices, production and trade, and the consequences for food security issues for each country.
Download or read book Farm Policies and World Markets written by Tim Josling and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is to provide interested readers with access to a number of articles that have been written over the years on the subject of the linkages between domestic farm policies (particularly in developed countries) and world markets for agricultural goods. The scope of the book includes the measurement of protection and the estimation of transfers to agricultural producers, the effect of these policies on consumers and the consequent impact on international trade. A major theme is that the monitoring of the trade and transfer implications of farm policies is an essential first step to addressing the need for internationally agreed disciplines on their nature and extent. The topic of trade impacts of farm policies has become important in two different market situations. When agricultural commodity prices are depressed, attention turns to the activities of countries (particularly developed countries) that support the income of their own farmers but at the expense of farmers in other countries. When prices rise, as they have done in the last five years, the question is reversed: what is the impact of the farm and food policies that restrict exports to keep domestic prices low on food security in other countries? Thus, the narrative of the monitoring of farm policies by international organizations such as the OECD and the disciplining of such policies under the rules of the WTO is as relevant today as in the 1970s when the first efforts in this direction were made. Contents:About the AuthorPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionMonitoring the Trade Impacts of Developed Country Farm Policies:Agricultural Protection and Stabilization Policies: Analysis of Current Neomercantilist PracticesMeasuring Levels of Protection in Agriculture: A Survey of Approaches and Results (with Stefan Tangermann)Of Models and Measures: Some Thoughts on the Use and Abuse of Policy IndicatorsDomestic Policies and the Structure of International Markets:Government Price Policies and the Structure of International Agricultural TradeDomestic Agricultural Price Policies and Their Interaction through TradePrice, Stock, and Trade Policies and the Functioning of International Grain MarketsDisciplining Domestic Policies through the GATT and WTO:The GATT: Its Historical Role and Importance to Agricultural Policy and TradeReflections on the Exceptional Treatment of Agriculture in the WTOCompeting Paradigms in the OECD and Their Impact on the WTO Agricultural TalksTrade Conflicts over Domestic Policies:Agricultural Trade Issues in Transatlantic Trade RelationsProduction and Export Subsidies in Agriculture: Lessons from GATT and WTO Disputes Involving the US and the EC (with Stefan Tangermann)Agricultural Trade Disputes in the WTOMonitoring the Compliance of Country Policies with WTO Disciplines:WTO Compliance and Domestic Farm Policy ChangeThe Difficult Task of Disciplining Domestic Support (with David Orden and David Blandford)Transparency and Timeliness: The Monitoring of Agricultural Policies in the WTO using OECD Data (with Klaus Mittenzwei) Readership: Undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, academics, and policymakers interested in trade in agricultural goods, domestic farm policies, measurement of protection and domestic support estimation. Key Features:Unique book on the topic that includes both the monitoring and the disciplining of farm policiesContains articles written over a number of years that will give the reader a better feel for the continuity of the issues and the development of responses by international agenciesA good introduction to the topic by an author who is well-known and established in the fieldKeywords:Agricultural Policies;Agricultural Trade
Download or read book Agricultural Trade and Food Security written by Kevin Watkins and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1995 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a $16,000 subsidy per farmer in the USA translate into food insecurity for households in Cagayan Valley in the Philippines? How does a few percentage points rise in grain demand in South Korea drive up meat prices in the wet market of Valencia in Cotabato in the Philippines? This book takes us through the interaction of international trade realities and national policies, and how they impact on the survival strategies of even remote households and villages. Knowing and understanding such links raise larger and pressing considerations for development work in many communities. The need for a wider range of tools of analysis and intervention, especially in the field of economics and in macroeconomic policy-making is upon us. This book will attempt to contribute to filling that need, and, hopefully contribute also to efforts at bringing micro development concerns into macro development programmes and policies.
Download or read book Agriculture Price Stabilisation and Trade Rules written by Irene Musselli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Agricultural Price Stabilisation and Trade Rules Irene Musselli offers a fresh look at the tool box of managed trade in agricultural commodities and develops new and refined solutions that take into account the legal role of equity and of graduation.
Download or read book Realigning policy interventions on agricultural prices written by Consoli, S., Egas Yerovi, J.J., Morales Opazo, C. and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has resulted in a shock to agrifood systems around the world, with the potential for low- and middle-income countries to be particularly affected. Although policy responses were more muted than during the 2007–2008 world food crisis, efforts to insulate from supply shocks and ensure local availability during COVID-19 have generally included export restrictions and import tariff reductions, among other responses. In an effort to enable rapid market monitoring and realignment, we develop a new indicator defined as a monthly nominal rate of protection “express” which seeks to isolate as much as possible the effect of trade and market policies on domestic prices in real-time in order to understand how they responded. This analysis examines changes to this indicator during the first wave of the pandemic in 27 low- and middle-income countries for the most-consumed staple cereals of the poor and food insecure. We show that agricultural price incentives declined by 12.6 percentage points compared to the same months in previous years, suggesting that retail domestic price spikes may have largely been mitigated or avoided. However, impacts varied across countries and commodities, and this indicator can serve as a tool for examining primary drivers of changes and conducting causal analysis to facilitate adequate agrifood policy responses to support economic recovery in the post-COVID-19 era.
Download or read book World Agricultural Trade written by Institute for Research on Public Policy and published by IRPP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, the two Institutes brought together a number of persons with considerable experience in agricultural policy from 20 countries representing both importers and exporters. They participated in 4 meetings and approved the consensus policy statement published here with the background papers developed for the meetings. These background studies include suggestions for reforming government policies worldwide; a North American and European Community approach to decoupling the policy decisions that affect production from those that are pursued on social or environmental grounds; agriculture in GATT negotiations and developing countries; and exchange rates and their role in agricultural trade issues.
Download or read book Agriculture and the WTO written by Merlinda Ingco and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade.
Download or read book The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2018 written by Food and Agriculture of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global agricultural trade has increased significantly in value terms since 2000. Its pattern has also changed – emerging economies and developing countries play a bigger role in international markets, and South–South agricultural trade has expanded significantly. Climate change is expected to affect agriculture, food security and nutrition unevenly across countries and regions. Changes in comparative advantage in agriculture around the world will also affect international trade. This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets focuses on the complex and underexplored intersection between agricultural trade, climate change and food security. The report makes an important contribution to the policy debates on climate change adaptation and mitigation under the Paris Agreement and the multilateral agricultural trade rules. The report discusses policies – both domestic support and trade measures – that can promote food security, adaptation and mitigation, and improve the livelihoods of family farmers around the world. Given both the slow- and rapid-onset impacts of climate change, policies that can significantly promote climate change adaptation and mitigation would benefit from deeper discussions in international fora on how to strengthen the mutually supportive role of trade rules and climate interventions.
