Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries: A Case-Study of the Tropical Beverage Crops - Couverture rigide

Maizels, Alfred; Bacon, Robert; Mavrotas, George

 
9780198233381: Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries: A Case-Study of the Tropical Beverage Crops
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198233388 ISBN 13 : 9780198233381
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 has been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large number of developing countries. This book investigates whether the commodity-producing countries, by joint action, could have prevented the price collapse by appropriate supply management.

The analysis is focused on the markets for the tropical beverage crops: coffee, cocoa, and tea. Using new econometric models for each market, the impact of alternative supply management schemes on supply, consumption, prices, and export earnings is simulated for the later 1980s. The results indicate that supply management by producing countries would, indeed, have been a viable alternative to the `free market' approach favoured by the developed countries. This has important implications for current international commodity policy, and, in particular, for future joint action by producing countries to overcome persistent commodity surpluses as a complement to needed diversification.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The collapse in commodity prices since 1980 has been a major cause of the economic crisis in a large number of developing countries. This book investigates whether the commodity-producing countries, by joint action, could have prevented the price collapse by appropriate supply management. The analysis is focused on the markets for the tropical beverage crops: coffee, cocoa, and tea. Using new econometric models for each market, the impact of alternative supply management schemes on supply, consumption, prices, and export earnings is simulated for the later 1980s. The results indicate that supply management by producing countries would, indeed, have been a viable alternative to the `free market' approach favoured by the developed countries. This has important implications for current international commodity policy, and, in particular, for future joint action by producing countries to overcome persistent commodity surpluses as a complement to needed diversification.

Revue de presse

This has important implications for current international commodity policy. (CAB Abstracts)

...this is a fine monograph and its publication will be welcomed by both students and researchers alike. - David Sapsford. Economic Journal. September 1998.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198233388
ISBN 13 
9780198233381
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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