Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam

A number of developing countries consider their livestock production sectors to be particularly vulnerable to global trade liberalization, especially because of the dominance of smallholder systems. The argument goes that agricultural trade liberalization will give undue advantage to large-scale com...

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Autores principales: Nin-Pratt, Alejandro, Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Ehui, Simeon K.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50614
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author Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Lapar, Ma. Lucila
Ehui, Simeon K.
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description A number of developing countries consider their livestock production sectors to be particularly vulnerable to global trade liberalization, especially because of the dominance of smallholder systems. The argument goes that agricultural trade liberalization will give undue advantage to large-scale commercial livestock systems at the expense of smallholder production systems, and that this in turn will add to the adjustment pressures on smallholder producers for whom income from livestock production is vital in helping them avoid poverty. We use a micromacro approach that combines the GTAP general equilibrium model with a simple micro model to measure expected impacts of trade liberalization on a representative sample of Vietnam\92s livestock producers. Our results show that the impact of trade liberalization on Vietnam\92s livestock production tends to be small but in general a more open Vietnamese economy would result in a deterioration of the trade balance of livestock products. In spite of this, trade liberalization would benefit poor livestock producers by increasing livestock prices relative to production costs, in particular feed costs, and by increasing non-agricultural income.
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spelling CGSpace506142025-04-07T18:21:12Z Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam Nin-Pratt, Alejandro Lapar, Ma. Lucila Ehui, Simeon K. poverty trade liberalization livestock A number of developing countries consider their livestock production sectors to be particularly vulnerable to global trade liberalization, especially because of the dominance of smallholder systems. The argument goes that agricultural trade liberalization will give undue advantage to large-scale commercial livestock systems at the expense of smallholder production systems, and that this in turn will add to the adjustment pressures on smallholder producers for whom income from livestock production is vital in helping them avoid poverty. We use a micromacro approach that combines the GTAP general equilibrium model with a simple micro model to measure expected impacts of trade liberalization on a representative sample of Vietnam\92s livestock producers. Our results show that the impact of trade liberalization on Vietnam\92s livestock production tends to be small but in general a more open Vietnamese economy would result in a deterioration of the trade balance of livestock products. In spite of this, trade liberalization would benefit poor livestock producers by increasing livestock prices relative to production costs, in particular feed costs, and by increasing non-agricultural income. 2003 2014-10-31T06:21:26Z 2014-10-31T06:21:26Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50614 en Limited Access
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trade liberalization
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Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Lapar, Ma. Lucila
Ehui, Simeon K.
Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title_full Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title_fullStr Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title_short Globalization, trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast Asia: The case of the livestock sector in Vietnam
title_sort globalization trade liberalization and poverty alleviation in southeast asia the case of the livestock sector in vietnam
topic poverty
trade liberalization
livestock
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/50614
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