Economic Reform, Trade and Agricultural Development [Paperback]

Over the past decade, developing and formerly centrally planned economies have embarked on fundamental economic reforms. The reforms at the macroeconomic level - notably in fiscal, monetary and trade policies - have come under the analytic microscope. However, these macroeconomic reforms are a necessary but not sufficient condition for growth: reforms in the productive sectors of the economy - agriculture, industry and services - are required to generate growth and employment. This book, through focusing on the links between macroeconomic and agricultural reforms, examines in a comparative perspective these hitherto neglected but vital links, providing both theoretical and policy perspectives on the scope and sequencing of economic reform.List of Contributors - Acknowledgements - Preface; L.Emmerij - Introduction; I.Goldin - PART 1: AFRICA - Government Policies and Agricultural Performance: Tanzania and Kenya; D.Bevan, P.Collier & J.W.Gunning - Agriculture, Liberalisation and Economic Growth in Ghana and C te d'Ivoire; J.Pickett - Agriculture and the Policy Environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe; D.J.Jansen & A.Rukovo - Namibian Agriculture and Economy-Wide Policies; W.Elkan, E.van der Linden & R.Sherbourne - Agricultural Policy Reform in Morocco, 1984-91; J.Kydd & S.Thoyer - PART 2: LATIN AMERICA - Labour Markets, Migration and Welfare: Agriculture in the Mexico-US Free Trade Agreement; S.Levy & S.van Wijnbergen - Heterodox Stabilization Plans and Agriculture in Brazil, 1986-91; G.Castro de Rezende - PART 3: ASIA - Trade Liberalisation and Indian Agriculture; S.Subramanian - Policy Reform, Chinese Agriculture and the Implications for China's Trade; C.Findlay, A.Watson & W.Martin - PART 4: FORMERLY CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES - Agricultural Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR: A Note on the Implications for International Trade in Agricultural Products; C.Csaki - Intersectoral Changes in Former Socialist Economies: Distinguishing Inl_