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Cambridge University Press Books

Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture

Many of the structural adjustment programmes applied in developing countries and more recently in Eastern Europe have targeted their agricultural sectors, which account for major shares of economic activity and income. Liberalizing agricultural trade has major effects on income distribution and hence potentially significant implications for the political economy of reform. These fundamental effects on the organization of economic activity and the relative positions of different economic sectors remain, however, a neglected issue of policy analysis.
In this volume, derived from a joint conference held by the CEPR and the OECD Development Centre in Paris in April 1991, leading international experts explicitly consider such open economy dimensions to structural adjustment. They focus in particular on the relation of domestic to international reforms; the sequencing of trade, sectoral and other reforms; the impact of structural adjustment on infrastructure and investment; the design of policy programmes to stabilize income and agricultural prices in open economies; and the implications for public finance of agricultural reform. They also assess the prospects for the success of trade reform in increasing agricultural competitiveness in world markets, focusing in particular on the circumstances in which the 'small country assumption' is violated and the policy implications of its violation.

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Winters, L and I Goldin (eds) (1992), ‘Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Winters, L and I Goldin (1992), ‘Introduction: from macro to maize‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Reisen, H and S Edwards (1992), ‘Sequencing and welfare: Labour markets and agriculture‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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van Wijnbergen, S, S Levy, S Levy and D Cohen (1992), ‘Agricultural adjustment and the Mexico-USA free trade agreement‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Devarajan, S, D Rodrik and E Claassen (1992), ‘Do the benefits of fixed exchange rates outweigh their costs? The CFA Zone in Africa‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Suwa-Eisenmann, A, S Devarajan, C Morrisson and F Bourguignon (1992), ‘Adjustment and the rural sector: a counterfactual analysis of Morocco‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Chhibber, A and J Azam (1992), ‘Exchange reforms, supply reforms, and inflation in Africa‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Panagariya, A, M Schiff and P Lloyd (1992), ‘Taxes versus quotas: the case of cocoa exports‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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van der Mensbrugghe, D, D Evans, I Goldin and C Bliss (1992), ‘Trade reform and the small country assumption‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Anderson, R, A Powell and F Adams (1992), ‘Markets, stabilisation and structural adjustment in Eastern European agriculture‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Labys, W and C Gilbert (1992), ‘Should marketing boards stabilise prices through forward purchases?‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Seabright, P and R Faini (1992), ‘Infrastructure, relative prices and agricultural adjustment‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Tanzi, V and N Stern (1992), ‘Structural factors and tax revenue in developing countries: a decade of evidence‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture

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Blandford, D and K Anderson (1992), ‘International dimensions of the political economy of distortionary price and trade policies‘, in Winters, L and I Goldin (eds), Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/open-economies-structural-adjustment-and-agriculture