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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Chunlai, editor.

Duncan, Ronald C., 1936- editor.

ANU E Press, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

Agriculture and state--China.

Agriculture and state.

Food supply--China.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 420 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Agriculture and food security in China : what effect World Trade Organization accessionand regional trade arrangements?

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2008

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University E Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 3, 2020).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780731538171

073153817X

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_458797