spatial clustering offers opportunities for Zambia to benefit from regional trade in food staples. In normal and good harvest … consistent and predictable trade policies. Figure 1. …

marketed quantities in Africa. As an initial, exploratory exercise, the paper examines the spatial pattern of population, food … production, consumption, and trade in the three countries of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. This largely descriptive initial work … will lay the empirical foundations for future analytical work modeling regional trade flows of food staples. By mapping …

This paper examines the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency response in southern Africa through the lens of the … enhance the response to future events. They also discuss national and regional trade regime changes that would reduce the need … for emergency response, and consider what lessons the 2002/03 crisis may have for the role of Strategic Grain Reserves …

The importance of food standards in global agricultural trade has increased strongly, but the effects are uncertain … countries and concentrate the benefits of trade with processing and retailing companies and large farms, thereby casting doubt … on the development impact of international agricultural trade. Other argue that the standards can be catalysts for growth …

welfare reducing for the region - a robust result as ind icated by the sensitivity tests. South Africa emerges as the sole …. Imports from the rest of the world drop for most netimporter SADC countries, whereas trade with the SADC region generally … increases, indicating that both trade diversion and trade creation result from these tariff reforms. The negative net welfare …

This paper asks how NAFTA affected income distribution within Mexico considering changes in internalmigration. Trade …. Thus, by increasing the wages of poorer workers, one might expect that trade willdecrease income disparity. However … Mexico. Because trade may affect wages differentlyacross regions within the country, accurate trade welfare measures must …

global poverty. The increase largely comes from South Asia (particularly India) and Sub-Saharan Africa. Significant number of … countries in Sub-Saharan Africa show higher poverty with large scale expansion of biofuels. However, poverty declines in East … the GINI coefficient in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia. There is a small reduction in the GINI coefficient in the rest …

important foreign exchange earner for the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM), and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) member …), and Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) member countries. Jamaica is the only CARICOM country that exports tilapia …

As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country … participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how international trade affects the poor in developing countries … accounts data, or what might be called the “"top-down”" approach. Another feature of several recent trade/poverty studies–- and …