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Title: Asia?s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030

Author(s): Kym Anderson and Anna Strutt

Publication Date: April 2012

Keyword(s): Asian economic growth and structural change, booming sector economics, food security, global economy-wide model projections and South-South trade

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and Korea and Taiwan from the late 1960s has spread to the much more populous ASEAN region, China and India. This paper examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food security. It does so retrospectively and by projecting a model of the world economy which compares alternative growth strategies, trade policy scenarios and savings behaviours to 2030. Projected impacts on sectoral shares of GDP, ?openness? to trade and the composition and direction of trade are drawn out, followed by effects of the boom in non-farm sectors on agricultural self-sufficiency and real food consumption per capita in Asia and elsewhere. The paper concludes by drawing implications for policies that can address more efficiently Asia?s concerns about food security and rural-urban income disparity than the trade policy measures used by earlier-industrializing Northeast Asia.

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Anderson, K and Strutt, A. 2012. 'Asia?s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8950