Agricultural Trade Liberalization and the Least Developed Countries (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

Although the current round of international trade negotiations was called a a ~Development Rounda (TM), very little was accomplished before the negotiations stalled in mid-2006. Developing countries as a group stand to gain very substantially from trade reform in agricultural commodities. It is less clear how the 50 countries identified by the United Nations as the a ~Least Developed Countriesa (TM) (LDCs), which have been subject to special consideration in international trade negotiations, would fare. Would they lose their preferential trade access to the OECD markets and, if so, would these losses exceed the potential gains from liberalized trade? Or would low-income countries that currently receive high prices for commodities such as sugar in some OECD-country markets be out-competed by countries such as Brazil in a liberalized market? More generally, would any benefits from liberalized agricultural trade be captured by middle-income countries with good domestic infrastructure and well-functioning markets, leaving few or no economic benefits to the LDCs? How should the LDCs prepare for multilateral reform of agricultural trade, and should they take policy action now in response to the continuation of the trade-distorting agricultural policies pursued by the OECD countries? To what extent do the LDCs and the middle-income developing countries have common interests with respect to the desired outcomes of the trade round? Are the LDCs well represented by the Group of 21, which consists primarily of middle-income countries with strong export potential in agriculture, or should they pursue a different set of goals in future negotiations? In this book, several experts on internationaltrade and development address these and related questions.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wageningen UR Frontis Series, 19
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	Niek Koning • Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-6079-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science
LSN:	1-4020-6079-3
Barcode:	9781402060793

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