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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The Politics and Economics of Commodity Agreements and Compensatory Financing -- 1 The History and Politics of International Commodity Agreements and Compensatory Financing -- 2 The Economics of Stabilization: A Historical Survey -- Part II: Compensatory Financing: An Economic Evaluation of Current Programmes -- 3 The International Monetary Fund's Compensatory Financing Facility -- 4 Commodity-Related Financial Compensation by the European Community -- 5 Food Security and Compensatory Financing: A Discussion of the International Monetary Fund's Cereal Import Facility -- Part III: Commodity Arrangements: An Economic Evaluation of Current Programmes -- 6 The International Coffee Agreement -- 7 The International Natural Rubber Agreement -- 8 The International Cocoa Agreements -- 9 Commodity Protocols -- 10 A Comparison and Evaluation of the Arrangements -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractThis paper quantifies the effects of the determinants of intersectoral labor mobility and the effect of intersectoral labor mobility on deforestation in Ghana over the period 1970–2008. A cointegration and error correction modeling approach is employed. The empirical results show that labor mobility from the agricultural to the non-agricultural sector exerts negative effects on deforestation in Ghana in the long run and short run. Relative agricultural income exerts a significant negative effect on intersectoral labor mobility in the long run. Deforestation is influenced positively by population pressure, the price of fertilizer and rainfall, whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative effect in the long run. In the short run, real producer prices of cocoa and maize exert significant positive effects on deforestation whereas access to irrigation infrastructure exerts a negative significant effect. Fruitful policy recommendations based on the empirical magnitudes and directions of these effects are made in this paper.