Agriculture and food security in China : what effect WTO accession and regional trade arrangements? / / Chunlai Chen and Ron Duncan [editors]

• Pubblicazione: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 420 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 343.087
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture and state - China; Food supply - China
• Persona (resp. second.): ChenChunlai; DuncanRonald C. <1936->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Tables -- Figures -- Symbols -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Achieving food security in China: implications of WTO accession / Chunlai Chen and Ron Duncan -- 2. Agricultural development and policy before and after China’s WTO accession / Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle -- 3. China’s WTO accession: the impact on its agricultural sector and grain policy / Feng Lu -- 4. Rural-urban income disparity and WTO impact on China’s agricultural sector: policy considerations / Xiaolu Wang and Ron Duncan -- 5. The impact of WTO accession on China’s agricultural sector / Xiaolu Wang -- 6. The impact of China’s WTO accession on its regional economies / Tingsong Jiang -- 7. WTO accession and food security in China / Tingsong Jiang -- 8. Revisiting the economic costs of food self-sufficiency in China / Ron Duncan, Lucy Rees and Rod Tyers -- 9. Trade reform in the short run: China’s WTO Accession / Rod Tyers and Lucy Rees -- 10. Trade reform, macroeconomic policy and sectoral labour movement in China / Jennifer Chang and Rod Tyers -- 11. China’s agricultural trade following its WTO accession / Chunlai Chen -- 12. Agricultural trade between China and ASEAN: dynamics and prospects / Jun Yang and Chunlai Chen -- 13. The economic impact of the ASEAN–China Free Trade Area: a computational analysis with special emphasis on agriculture / Jun Yang and Chunlai Chen -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had profound consequences for the structure of its economy, and there will many more before the full benefits of an open trading regime will be realised. Agriculture and Food Security in China explains the background to China’s WTO accession and links accession to reforms beginning as far back as 1979. The book highlights China’s policymakers’ decision to move away from protectionism and gain self-sufficiency, and illustrates how China’s step away from direct participation in the agricultural sector to indirect regulatory involvement and liberalisation could encourage further economic growth. Yet not all economic growth is cost-free. Agriculture and Food Security in China explores the short-term impacts of WTO accession as well as the mid and long-term implications of greater market involvement at an economy-wide and regional level. Growing divides between coastal and inland regions - and differences in rural and urban growth - will require a better understanding of the consequences of greater market dependency. Agriculture and Food Security in China adds to the existing knowledge of China’s agricultural growth as well as the impacts and interrelationships between WTO accession and China’s participation in other regional free trade agreements.
• Altri titoli varianti: Agriculture and food security in China : what effect World Trade Organization accessionand regional trade arrangements?
• Titolo autorizzato: Agriculture and food security in China
• ISBN: 0-7315-3817-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141800803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II