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Shared Harvets : Agriculture, Trade, and Employment.
Title:
Shared Harvets : Agriculture, Trade, and Employment.
Author:
Cheong, David.
ISBN:
9789221268130
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SHARED HARVESTS: AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT - An Overview -- AGRICULTURE: IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE -- AGRICULTURE: UNEQUAL AND DISTORTED -- AGRICULTURAL TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT: CHALLENGESAND OPPORTUNITIES -- LINKS BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT:COMPLEX BUT STRONG -- THE WAY FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- 1. EMPLOYMENT, PRODUCTIVITY, AND TRADE IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRY AGRICULTURE -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- 1.2.1 Forms of agricultural employment -- 1.2.2 Terms and conditions of agricultural employment -- 1.2.3 Wages and earnings in developing-country agriculture -- 1.2.4 Agricultural worker mobility -- 1.3 PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRY AGRICULTURE -- 1.3.1 A model of agricultural productivity and developing-countryemployment -- 1.3.2 Agricultural innovation and new technologies -- 1.4 DEVELOPING-COUNTRY AGRICULTURE AND GLOBAL MARKETS -- 1.4.1 Agricultural trade policies and domestic measures -- 1.4.2 Agricultural terms of trade and price volatility -- 1.4.3 Regional trade agreements -- 1.5 TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND AGRICULTURAL LABOUR MARKETS -- 1.6 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 2. LEGAL ASPECTS OF TRADE IN AGRICULTURE: WTO AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE AND PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS -- 2.1 THE INTERNATIONAL TRADING SYSTEM AND AGRICULTURE -- 2.1.1 The Agreement on Agriculture -- 2.1.2 Market access -- 2.1.3 Domestic support -- 2.1.4 Export competition -- 2.1.5 Non-tariff measures -- 2.2 THE DOHA ROUND -- 2.3 PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS -- 2.3.1 General considerations -- 2.3.2 Development issues -- 2.3.3 Market access in PTAs -- 2.3.5 Subsidies -- 2.3.6 Non-tariff measures in PTAs -- 2.4 CONCLUSION -- ANNEXES -- A.2.1 Examples of safeguard measures in PTAs.

A.2.2 Examples of provisions on export restrictions in PTAs -- A.2.3 Examples of export subsidy provisions in PTAs -- A.2.4 Example of provision to maintain preference margin -- A.2.5 Example of development and agricultural cooperation in PTAs -- REFERENCES -- 3. TRADE AND AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT LINKAGES IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELLING -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 QUANTITATIVE MODELS -- 3.2.1 Partial equilibrium models -- 3.2.2 Social accounting matrices -- 3.2.3 Computable general equilibrium models -- 3.3 ILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIOS -- 3.3.1 Illustrative scenario -- unilateral liberalization -- 3.3.2 Illustrative scenario: multilateral liberalization -- 3.4 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 4. ECONOMIC REFORMS AND AGRICULTURE IN BANGLADESH: ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS USING ECONOMY-WIDE SIMULATION MODELS -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 METHODOLOGY -- 4.2.1. The GTAP Model -- 4.2.2. The CGE model for the Bangladesh economy -- 4.3. STRUCTURE OF THE BANGLADESH ECONOMY -- 4.4 BANGLADESH'S TRADE AND AGRICULTURAL POLICIES -- 4.4.1. Global agricultural trade liberalization under a potential WTO Doha agreement -- 4.4.2. Bilateral free-trade agreement between Bangladesh and India -- 4.4.3. Unilateral agricultural trade liberalization -- 4.4.4 Agricultural production subsidy policy -- 4.4.5 Agricultural productivity -- 4.5 SCENARIOS CONSIDERED IN THE BANGLADESH CGE MODEL -- 4.6 RESULTS FROM THE BANGLADESH CGE MODEL -- 4.6.1 Macroeconomic effects -- 4.6.2 Sectoral effects -- 4.6.3. Effects on households -- 4.6.4 Effects on employment -- 4.7 POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- ANNEX 4.1: THE BANGLADESH SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX -- ANNEX 4.2: MAPPING AND CLASSIFICATION SCHEME IN THESOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX OF BANGLADESH, 2007 -- REFERENCES -- 5. IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE ON EMPLOYMENT IN BENIN -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR.

5.2.1 General characteristics of the sector -- 5.2.2 The agricultural sector's impact on society and employment -- 5.2.3 Contribution of the agricultural sector to Benin's economy -- 5.3 AGRICULTURE AND FOREIGN TRADE -- 5.3.1 Imports -- 5.3.2 Exports -- 5.3.3 Trading partners -- 5.4 TRADE POLICIES -- 5.4.1 Common External Tariff -- 5.4.2 ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) -- 5.4.3 Other reforms -- 5.5 EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- 5.5.1 Trends in the labour force -- 5.5.2 Patterns and trends in employment -- 5.5.3 The labour force at work -- 5.6 GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE ON JOBS -- 5.6.1 Methodology -- 5.7 CONCLUSIONS -- ANNEXES -- REFERENCES -- 6. FOREIGN TRADE AND AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN GUATEMALA -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN GUATEMALA -- 6.2.1 Characterization of the agricultural worker -- 6.2.2 Characterization of the agricultural employer -- 6.2.3 Governmental and non-governmental entities that supportagro-export activities -- 6.3 FOREIGN TRADE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS -- 6.3.1 Evolution of traditional exports -- 6.3.2 Evolution of non-traditional exports -- 6.3.3 Agricultural exports -- 6.3.4 Main destinations for agricultural exports -- 6.3.5 Evolution of agricultural imports -- 6.4 TRADE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY GUATEMALA THATINCLUDE RULES ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS -- 6.4.1 The policy of trade liberalization -- 6.4.2 Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free TradeAgreement -- 6.4.3 Other trade agreements signed by Guatemala -- 6.4.4 Association Agreement between the European Union and CentralAmerica -- 6.5 EFFECTS OF PREFERENTIAL TRADE AGREEMENTS ON AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT IN GUATEMALA -- 6.5.1 Econometric model -- 6.5.2 Social Accounting Matrix -- 6.6 AGRICULTURAL LABOUR LEGISLATION AND TRADE UNIONS -- 6.6.1. Constitutional legislation.

6.6.2. International legislation -- 6.6.3 Labour Code -- 6.6.4 Compliance with labour legislation -- 6.6.5 Trade unions in the agricultural sector -- 6.7 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 6.7.1 Conclusions -- 6.7.2 Recommendations -- ANNEX: RESULTS OF THE REGRESSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 7. TRADE, PRODUCTIVITY, AND EMPLOYMENT LINKAGES IN INDONESIAN AGRICULTURE -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 METHODOLOGY -- 7.2.1 The IndoLab CGE model -- 7.2.2 Analysis and findings -- 7.3 IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ANNEX -- 8. TOWARDS A CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA IN AFRICA:A CGE MODELLING ASSESSMENT WITH A FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 AFRICA'S TRADE-RELATED CHALLENGES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE -- 8.2.2 Share of intra-African trade -- 8.2.3 Export diversification -- 8.2.4 Tariff barriers -- 8.2.5 Non-tariff barriers -- 8.3 METHODOLOGY AND TRADE REFORMS ANALYSED -- 8.3.1 Methodology -- 8.3.2 Geographic and sectoral decompositions -- 8.3.3 Trade reforms analysed -- 8.4 PRESENTATION OF MAIN RESULTS WITH A FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE -- 8.4.1 Exports -- 8.4.2 Income -- 8.4.3 Wages -- 8.4.4 Employment -- 8.4.5 Country-level effects -- 8.4.6 Trade facilitation -- 8.5 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- ANNEXES -- REFERENCES -- 9. POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF WTO AND EU ACCESSION ON THE AGRICULTURALSECTOR IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS -- 9.3 CURRENT POLICY FRAMEWORK -- 9.3.1 Trade reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 9.3.2 Non-tariff market access measures -- 9.3.3 Barriers to exports -- 9.3.4 Domestic support -- 9.4 A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF ACCESSION ON SELECTED SENSITIVE PRODUCTS -- 9.4.1 The model -- 9.4.2 Data -- 9.4.3 The results -- 9.5 IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ANNEX 9.1: THE GSIM MODEL -- 10. A COHERENT AGRICULTURE TRADE POLICY FOR MEXICO -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION.

10.2 THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR -- 10.3 AGRICULTURAL TRADE -- 10.4 TRADE POLICY -- 10.4.1 Market access -- 10.4.2 Domestic support -- 10.4.3 Non-tariff measures -- 10.4.4 Effect of trade policy on Mexican producers -- 10.4.5 The way ahead -- 10.5 MODEL, DATA, AND SCENARIOS -- 10.6 RESULTS -- 10.6.1 MFN scenario -- 10.6.2 Labour scenario -- 10.6.3 R&D scenario -- 10.6.4 Domestic support scenario -- 10.7 CONCLUSION -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
The edited volume "Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment" is the outcome of a technical cooperation project entitled "Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade and Employment" managed jointly by the European Commission and the International Labour Office (ILO) with funding from the European Union, and collaborative work between the ILO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The research findings in this volume emphasize the need to make agriculture (or re-establish it as) a high policy priority, particularly in the domains of development, trade, and employment.
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