No. 14 Consideration in the reform of agricultural trade policy in low income developing countries

Year of publication2014

AuthorFAO

PublisherFAO

AbstractMany developing countries are currently under pressure to reduce their trade barriers to the entry of agricultural products. This pressure comes both as a result of ongoing trade negotiations (multilateral, plurilateral or bilateral) and due to policy advice from donors and international organizations based on the assumption that a liberal agricultural trade policy is necessary to allow growth through trade expansion. Although developing countries are very heterogeneous both in terms of their economic standing and in terms of what is asked of them in trade negotiations, these sources of pressure have tended to become conflated into a common consensus that further agricultural trade liberalization is appropriate for all countries, regardless of their level of development or of their trading partners trade policy stance.

 

Product typeJournal; magazine; bulletin

SeriesTrade Policy Briefs

Keywordsagricultural products; international trade; trade liberalization; economic competition; exports; economic development; imports; trade policies; trade barriers