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In: Discussion paper series 983
In: International trade
In: Discussion paper series 795
In: Discussion paper series 789
In: Pacific economic papers 206
In: Australia-Japan Research Centre Pacific economic paper 198
In: Trade and development
The changing patterns of production and trade in fibres, textiles and clothing provide a classic case study of the dynamics of our interdependent world economy. For centuries Asia supplied the textile factories of Europe with natural fibres, including silk from East Asia exports virtually no natural fibres and instead is the world's most important exporter of manufactured textile products and chief importer of fibres. New Silk Roads, first published in 1992, demonstrates that despite the import barriers erected by advanced economies, textiles and clothing production continues to serve as an engine of growth for developing economies seeking to export their way out of poverty. This book is based on selected papers given at a conference which discussed East Asia's role in world fibre, textile and clothing markets. It draws on trade and development theory as well as on historical evidence to trace the development of these changing markets, which are now dominated by the newly industrialized economies of Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and, increasingly, China and Thailand
In: Pacific economic papers 161
In: Working papers in trade and development 87,2
In: Asia & the Pacific policy studies
ISSN: 2050-2680
World Affairs Online
In: Asia & the Pacific policy studies, Band 11, Heft 1
ISSN: 2050-2680
AbstractNotwithstanding the increasing place of tourism exports, the rural sector and its agricultural production remain important contributors to Fiji's economy. But their contribution is compromised by policies and institutions that distort the farm sector's resource use, with too many resources employed by sugar and livestock producers at the expense of other farmers and producers of non‐farm products. Subsidies to the sugar industry could be used instead to boost investment in rural public goods such as infrastructure and agricultural research. That would benefit a much larger proportion of rural people, many of whom are below the poverty line. So too would a lowering of tariffs on imports of meat and milk products. And by thereby lowering food prices in urban areas, such re‐purposing of support would benefit their poorest households most. It would also lower the prices of high‐protein livestock products and nutrient‐rich fruits and vegetables, which could well improve nutrition and health.