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Agricultural Development and Trade Liberalisation: Implications for a Small Island State

Autor Renuka Mahadevan, John Asafu-Adjaye
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2008
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781604569162
ISBN-10: 1604569166
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: tables & charts
Dimensiuni: 260 x 180 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Nova Science Publishers Inc
Colecția Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Preface; Introduction; The Fijian Economy; The Sugar Industry; Productivity of Cane Farmers; The Lack of Soil Conservation on Cane Farms; Reforming the Cane and Sugar Industry; The Dynamic Computable General Equilibriu Model; Impact of Trade Liberalisation Policies; The Loss of EU Sugar Preferences, Impact of EU Development Aid, the EPA and Fijis Structural Reform; Fiji at its Crossroads: Where to Now?; References; Abbreviations and Acronymns; Index.