Shared Harvets : Agriculture, Trade and Employment / David Cheong, Marion Jansen, and Ralf Peters.

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 employment1.2.3 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 IMPLICATIONSREFERENCES; 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 PTAsA. 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 liberalization3.3.2 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.

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, trad.

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