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Abstract: Will poor countries benefit from agricultural trade liberalization? This question is of great importance now that efforts are being made to revamp the Doha Round and negotiations on European Partnership Agreements are entering their final phase. The Doha round was called a Development Round, but little was accomplished before the negotiations stalled in mid-2006. The assumption was that developing countries would gain from trade liberalization in agricultural commodities, but whether this is true for the 50 least developed countries (LDCs) remains hotly debated. Will gains from liberalization offset the erosion of the preferential access that LDCs currently have to OECD markets? Or will such gains be captured by middle-income countries with strong export potential in agriculture? Are LDC interests well represented by the Group of 21, which consist primarily of middle-income countries? How can LDCs respond to the continuation of trade-distorting policies of OECD countries? In this book, several experts on international trade and development address these and related questions.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Agricultural trade liberalization and the least-developed countries: introduction / N. Koning and P. Pinstrup-Andersen
• 2. Agricultural trade, development problems and poverty in the least-developed countries: an overview / O. Östensson
• 3. Making agricultural trade reform work for the poor / M.A. Tutwiler and M. Straub
• 4. Price intervention in Sub-Saharan African agriculture: can an institutionalist view alter our conception of the costs and benefits? / A. Dorward, J. Kydd and C. Poulton
• 5. Poverty, land conservation and intergenerational equity: will the least-developed countries benefit from agricultural trade liberalization? / K. Savadogo
• 6. Trade liberalization in cotton and sugar: impacts on developing countries / A.M. Nassar
• 7. How to increase the benefits of the DOHA development round for the least-developed countries / D. Blandford
• 8. Improving market access in agriculture for the African least-developed countries: deepening, widening, broadening and strengthening trade preferences / W. Yu
• 9. Agricultural trade liberalization under Doha: the risks facing African countries / O. Badiane
• 10. The practical experience with agricultural trade liberalization in Asia / D. Dawe
• 11. What can be learned from the history of developed countries? / N. Koning
• 12. How U.S. farm policies in the mid-1990s affected international crop prices: a harbinger of what to expect with further world-wide implementation of WTO-compliant policy modifications? / D.E. Ray and H.D. Schaffer
• 13. The WTO agricultural negotiations and the least developed countries: limitations and options / S. Murphy.

Contributors:

Koning, Niek, 1948-

Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Wageningen UR frontis series; v. 19

Subjects:

Produce trade — Government policy — Developing countries

Agriculture and state — Developing countries

Free trade — Developing countries

Foreign trade regulation — Developing countries

Produce trade — Government policy

Produce trade

Agriculture and state

Free trade

Foreign trade regulation

Developing countries

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical refences.

Physical Description:

249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

HD9018.D44 A369 2007

ISBNs:

1402060858
9781402060854
9781402060793
1402060793

OCLC Numbers:

144228467