Liberalizing Foodgrains
Experiences, Impacts and Lessons from South Asia
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 2010
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-19-806695-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the changing nature of policies regarding the foodgrains market in the post-liberalization period in South Asia. The volume explores the impact these policy changes have on food security, prices, production, consumption, and trade of foodgrains. The outcomes are further analysed for regional economic integration in Asia. The countries under discussion are India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The book brings out the contrast between the policies followed in these countries and outcomes emerging from them, measured in terms of many development and market indicators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Policymakers, development experts, and food and agricultural experts
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-806695-8 (9780198066958)
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Persons
A. Ganesh-Kumar is Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai; Devesh Roy is Research Fellow, Markets, Trade, and Institution Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC; and Ashok Gulati is Director in Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC and based in New Delhi.
Content
1. Introduction, A. GANESH-KUMAR, DEVESH ROY, and ASHOK GULATI; ; 2. Food Markets Liberalization in Bangladesh: How the Governments and Markets delivered?, NUIMUDDIN CHOWDHURY, NASIR FARID, and DEVESH ROY ; 3. Achieving Food Security in a Cost-effective Way: Implications of Domestic Deregulation and Liberalized Trade in India, SHIKHA JHA, P.V. SRINIVASAN, and A. GANESH-KUMAR; ; 4. . Liberalization and Food Security in Nepal, BISHWAMBHER PYAKURYAL, Y.B. THAPA, and DEVESH ROY; ; 5. Impact of Domestic Policies Towards Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Market Reform on Food Security in Pakistan, MUNIR AHMAD, CAESAR CORORATON, ABDUL QAYYUM, MUHAMMAD IQBAL, and PAUL DOROSH; ; 6. Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Market Reforms on the Paddy/ Rice Sector in Sri Lanka, JEEVIKA WEERAHEWA; ; 7. Conclusion, A. GANESH-KUMAR, DEVESH ROY, and ASHOK GULATI.