Global Rice and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Poverty And Welfare Implications For South Asia - Softcover

9780850928617: Global Rice and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Poverty And Welfare Implications For South Asia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0850928613 ISBN 13: 9780850928617

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008

The liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for countries dependent on its production and trade. This book explores the poverty and welfare implications of this liberalisation for India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and identifies the effects on different groups within rice-dependent developing countries.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review

This ambitious and methodologically sophisticated study offers a contribution to the ongoing debate on trade liberalisation and South Asian economy and market. -- Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, Vol. 7 No. 1, 2008

Synopsis

Rice has long been one of the most protected commodities in world trade. Now the probable significant liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for many countries dependent on its production and trade, particularly those in South Asia. This book explores the poverty and welfare implications of this liberalisation for India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and identifies the effects on different groups within poor rice-dependent developing countries. This book will be of great interest to researchers and policy makers, in South Asia and elsewhere, looking at the distributional consequences of multilateral trade agreements in terms of poverty and welfare within individual countries.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.