This volume was intended as a forum for exploring ideas related to state intervention and crisis management in present-day semi-peripheral regions from Latin America through Africa and South Asia. The virtue of this volume is that it provides insights both from theoretical and practical...

1. Agricultural trade patterns from the perspective of economic complexity -- 2. International agricultural trade: exporters and importers -- 3. International agricultural trade: products -- 4. The ever changing world wheat market -- 5. Trade integration and liberalization: possible solutions to...

Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...