The Common Agricultural Policy Regionalized Impact (CAPRI) model had been extended by the farm-type (FT) model to create a farm group model (referred to as CAPRI-FT), which represents the complete farm population at the EU-27 level using 2450 mathematical programming models. This chapter describes...

Trade in agricultural products has become more and more internationalized and globalized. A global trading system is now both more free and fair than ever before, which will boost global prosperity and contribute significantly to global economic development. Favourable conditions for international...

Wheat trade accounts for one-third of the world grain trade, and it is expected to double by 2050. The KRU (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) countries account for approximately one-quarter of world wheat exports and are collectively considered one of the key wheat exporting regions. Ukraine became a ...

This chapter provides a review on Albania's agricultural trade over the last 15 years (1996-2010). The five main sections of the chapter examine: (1) Albania's performance in terms of national and agricultural trade; (2) the main traded agricultural products and the main trading partners; the trade ...

This chapter examines provincial level agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Indonesia based on Fisher-ideal quantity index estimates. It finds that Indonesian agriculture exhibited divergent patterns of regional growth in the 1985-2005 post-Green Revolution period. The results...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has accepted trade liberalization and globalization as important policy directions. West African trade with Europe and the United States is already much greater than trade with other developed countries or intraregional trade, although trading...

This chapter highlights the debate and tensions concerning the fate of smallholder agriculture in the context of globalization and, in particular, market liberalization. A review of the impact of market reforms on the poor has revealed the limited and mixed impact of liberalization on smallholder...

This chapter explores and analyses the changes and challenges faced by the apparel industry of Bangladesh following the abolition of import quotas under the Multi-fibre Arrangement (MFA). Being the most important export industry of Bangladesh, changes related to the apparel industry affect the...

This chapter reviews the development policies that have been promoted by the Washington Institutions and implemented in developing countries within the framework of the structural adjustment programmes. It examines the lessons from the experience with these policies in light of the very successful...

This chapter evaluates the benefits from open trade for a least developed country (LDC) against the backdrop of the successful experience of the East Asian countries and against the more general backdrop of the debate between inward-looking and outward-looking trade policies and growth strategies....