Books reviewed include: Principles of Agricultural Economics by D. Colman and T. Young; World Agriculture: Toward 2000 by Nikos Alexandratos; Food Subsidies in Developing Countries: Costs, Benefits and Policy Options; Elasticities in International Agricultural Trade by Colin A. Carter and W. H....

This paper addresses the role of policy in the relationship between globalization and development by considering four examples: trade-related capacity building, standards for multinational enterprises, medical brain drain, and access to medicines. The paper demonstrates that, despite concerns...

[eng] Reform of post-soviet agriculture : a global point of view . Using a global agricultural applied general equilibrium model, this paper analyses the consequences of several scenarios of agricultural reform in the former Soviet Union. In increasing order of sequencing, the scenarios include...