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Title

World agricultural trade / edited by Tülay Yıldırım, Andrew Schmitz, W. Hartley Furtan.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Yıldırım, Tülay.
• Schmitz, Andrew.
• Furtan, W. Hartley.

Description

x, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• With the signing of the GATT agreement in 1995, the wheat trade was expected to enter into a period of liberalized markets. But has this agreement really changed the face of the world agricultural trade? This book explores the new world trade environment and the implications of the current adjustments for Turkey and countries like it. Contributors examine the GATT agreement on agriculture to show how it failed to move the wheat trade into a free market environment.
• By looking at the history of trade barriers, the changing role of trade institutions, and the impacts of the GATT agreement worldwide, World Agricultural Trade shows that much remains to be done in terms of policy change before the wheat trade can claim to operate in a free trade environment.

Subjects

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
• Wheat trade > Developing countries
• Produce trade > Government policy > International cooperation
• Wheat trade > Turkey
• Wheat trade > Government policy > International cooperation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Tulay Yildirim -- 1. Agricultural Trade: Future Issues / D. Gale Johnson -- 2. Medium-term FAPRI Outlook for World Agricultural Prices: Comparisons and Implications / William H. Meyers, Darnell Smith and Sudhir Chaudhary -- 3. A Social Science Fiction: Future Directions of European Agricultural Policy / David R. Harvey -- 4. Wheat in China: Supply Trends in the Reform Era / Scott Rozelle and Jikun Huang -- 5. Iranian Wheat Policy: Implications for Trade / Safdar Hosseini and John Spriggs -- 6. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Wheat Policy in Turkey / Tulay Yildirim, Hartley Furtan and Alper Guzel -- 7. International Trade Agreements: Some Prospects for Turkish Agriculture / A. Halis Akder -- 8. The "Restaurant-table" Effect: Europe and the Common Agricultural Policy / Harry de Gorter, Jan Pokrivcak and Johan F. M. Swinnen --
• 9. Agricultural Trade Prospects for Turkey with Central and Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation / M. Fisunoglu, M. Pinar and O. Aydogus -- 10. World Durum Wheat Trade: Competitiveness and Outlook / Won W. Koo and Ahmet Bayaner -- 11. The Uruguay Round: Implications for Turkish Agriculture / Erol H. Cakmak -- 12. Food Security Issues in Turkey / Haluk Kasnakoglu -- 13. State Trading, Trade Distortions and GATT / Andrew Schmitz and Hartley Furtan -- 14. Export Subsidies and State Trading: Theory and Application to Canadian Wheat / Julian M. Alston and Richard Gray -- 15. Plans and Adjustment: A Structuralist Approach to Modeling Grain Importer Behavior / Philip C. Abbott, Paul M. Patterson and Linda M. Young -- 16. State Trading Exporters and the World Trade Organization: What Are the Rules? / Mel Annand and Donald E. Buckingham.

ISBN

081333571X (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

98030420

OCLC

ocm39539533

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries