Rethinking protection for agricultural markets in Subsaharan Africa

Abstract: "This paper argues that although there are good reasons why poor countries in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) should support their agricultural sector, applicability of protective policies in the agricultural sectors of SSA is limited by various legal, economic, social, political and administrative reasons. The remaining scope, however, could be used to develop prospective agricultural sub-sectors for growth, poverty alleviation and food security, while protection should be embodied in comprehensive development strategies. These strategies must address the problems of low price transmittance of border measures and high transaction costs (in the largest sense) for agricultural products and particularly the limited supply capacity of small scale producers. Legally, trade policy in the case study country Senegal as well as in many other SSA countries is restricted much more by regional trade agreements than by the World Trade Organization (WTO). This is a formal and political reason why the p

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 19 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion

Erschienen in
DIE Discussion Paper ; Bd. 16/2006

Schlagwort
Agraraußenhandel
Protektionismus
Agrarpolitik
Zentralafrika

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2006
Urheber
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-429229
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