Towards Free Trade in Agriculture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

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."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	1988
Authors:	Kirit S. Parikh • Gunther Fischer • Klaus Frohberg • Odd Gulbrandsen
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	357
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-9401735605
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General
LSN:	9401735603
Barcode:	9789401735605

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