Table of Contents: (1) Young, Linda: "Introduction: Capacity Building and Agricultural Trade Policy Challenges in Developing Countries," pp. 171-174; (2) Young, Linda M. "Capacity Building Programs in Agricultural Trade Policy," pp. 175-184; (3) Salam, Abdul: "Distortions in Incentives to Production...

Content: (1) Scoppola, Margherita. "Regional Integration and Production Location: What Theories (Do Not) Tell Us." (pp. 117-140); (2) Hendricks, Nathan P., and Lawton Lanier Nalley. "Who Benefits from Global Agricultural Trade Liberalization? The Case of Wheat and Maize." (pp. 141-158); (3)...

India is the second largest producer of silk and also the largest consumer of silk in the world having a strong tradition bound domestic market. In this paper, growth functions were estimated for India’s aggregate production and trade parameters using annual data from 1984/85 to 2006/07. To...

International commodity Organizations can play a role in reducing transaction costs between producer and consumer. The current organisations do this partly through statistics and collecting and disseminating market information, undertaking projects and convening meetings. Of a traditional focus...

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)

Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)

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Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...

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