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Food Demand in Developing Countries and the Transition of World Agriculture

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  • Mellor, John W

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The food imbalances of developed and developing countries can provide mutially beneficial opportunities for each. The developing countries represent the only major growing market for agricultural exports from the developed countries. That potentially immense market can reduce the necessary pace of adjustment in the developed countries' agricultural sectors. Unfortunately, the failure of developed countries to recognize that their actions influence food demand in the developing countries results in grossly suboptimal policies. A more nearly optimal set of developed country policies would include price discrimination between elastic and inelastic food markets; technical assistance to developing countries in education and agricultural research; assistance in the development of infrastructure through increased support for food-for-work projects; stabilization of developing country access to food imports by expanding the IMF cereal financing facility; and improving developing countries' access to developed country markets for labor-intensive agricultural commodities. Copyright 1988 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Mellor, John W, 1988. "Food Demand in Developing Countries and the Transition of World Agriculture," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 15(4), pages 419-436.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:15:y:1988:i:4:p:419-36
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    1. Veeman, Terrence S. & Sudol, Maxine & Veeman, Michele M. & Dong, Ziao-Yuan, 1991. "Cereal Import Demand in Developing Countries," Staff Paper Series 232502, University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology.
    2. Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda & Kuku, Oluyemisi & Ajibola, Akeem, 2011. "Review of literature on agricultural productivity, social capital and food security in Nigeria:," NSSP working papers 21, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. Veeman, Terrence S. & Sudol, Maxine & Veeman, Michele M. & Dong, Xiao-Yuan, 1992. "Cereal Import Demand in Developing Countries," 1992 Occasional Paper Series No. 6 197886, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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