Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
APEC Agriculture and Trade
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Assessing APEC's Progress
Author: Richard E. FeinbergPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812301437
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In its first ten years, what has the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) accomplished? Has the 21-member forum - including the United States, Japan, China, Mexico, and most of Southeast Asia -- fulfilled its promise? To answer these vital questions, leading scholars at APEC Study Centres from thirteen APEC member economies undertook detailed studies of such central issues as trade in services, investment policy, human resource development, food and agriculture, energy, and financial stability.The findings are summarized in a policy report, "Learning From Experience", that has received wide praise and close scrutiny from senior government officials. The report concludes that APEC has successfully established itself as a world-class forum that has contributed to the affirmation of a coherent set of positive ideas. However, the report notes shortcomings in each of the critical areas of trade and investment liberalization, economic and technical cooperation, and institutional structure, and offers remedial policy recommendations to improve APECs future performance. This volume contains both the policy report and the issue studies. It is the product of the APEC International Assessment Network (APIAN), a collaborative, independent project among participating APEC Study Centres to track and assess the design and execution of key APEC initiatives.
Asia & Pacific Rim Agriculture and Trade Notes
Author: Indonesia in a Reforming World Economy
Author: Randy StringerPublisher: University of Adelaide Press
ISBN: 0980623812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Brings together a subset of papers that have used 2 GCE models, the WAYANG Model and the GTAP Model, as part of ACIAR Project 9449 to analyse growth and policy reform issues in Indonesia.
Negotiating Free-trade Agreements
Author: Walter GoodePublisher:
ISBN: 9781921244957
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
APEC Situation and Outlook Series
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428940561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
Agricultural Outlook
Author: APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism
Author: John RavenhillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521667975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping is the first comprehensive economic arrangement to link countries from around the Pacific Rim. Since its establishment in 1989, APEC has graduated from a ministerial-level gathering of nine countries to an institution that stages annual summits, has a permanent secretariat, and whose twenty-one members have committed themselves to establishing free trade in the region. A decade after its foundation, however, members have been increasingly frustrated with the grouping's progress. In this timely book, John Ravenhill examines the reasons for APEC's establishment, its evolution, and the causes of its failures. His conclusions address central questions in international relations about international collaboration and regionalism. The book will interest all those concerned with broader questions about regional economic and political cooperation.
Products and Services from ERS-NASS.
Author: Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries
Author: M. Ataman AksoyPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821383493
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries presents research findings based on a series of commodity studies of significant economic importance to developing countries. The book sets the stage with background chapters and investigations of cross-cutting issues. It then describes trade and domestic policy regimes affecting agricultural and food markets, and assesses the resulting patterns of production and trade. The book continues with an analysis of product standards and costs of compliance and their effects on agricultural and food trade. The book also investigates the impact of preferences given to selected countries and their effectiveness, then reviews the evidence on the attempts to decouple agricultural support from agricultural output. The last background chapter explores the robustness of the global gains of multilateral agricultural and food trade liberalization. Given this context, the book presents detailed commodity studies for coffee, cotton, dairy, fruits and vegetables, groundnuts, rice, seafood products, sugar, and wheat. These markets feature distorted policy regimes among industrial or middle-income countries. The studies analyze current policy regimes in key producing and consuming countries, document the magnitude of these distortions and estimate the distributional impacts - winners and losers - of trade and domestic policy reforms. By bringing the key issues and findings together in one place, Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries aids policy makers and researchers, both in their approach to global negotiations and in evaluating their domestic policies on agriculture. The book also complements the recently published Agriculture and the WTO, which focuses primarily on the agricultural issues within the context of the WTO negotiations.