The competitiveness of tropical agriculture : a guide to competitive potential with case studies /: a guide to competitive potential with case studies. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roger D. Norton, with Amy Angel, Ricardo Argüello, Á́lvaro Balcázar, Héctor Martínez, Henry Samacá, Anne Turner.
• Authors: Norton, Roger D, 1942-; Ángel, Amy; (Writer on international trade), Arguello, Ricardo; Martínez, Héctor; Samacá P., Henry; Turner, A (Anne)
• Contents: Part One: Concepts, Issues, and Policy 1. The Context and Scope of the Book 2. Introduction Part Two: Methodologies for Evaluating Competitiveness 3. International trade and prices as measures of competitiveness 4. Price-quality tradeoffs and multi-track evaluations of competitiveness 5. Track 1 methodology: cost-price measures of competitiveness 6. Track 2 Methodologies: value chains and quality criteria Part Three: Case Studies in the Competitiveness of Tropical Agriculture 7. Colombia: A Strategic Assessment of National Crop Competitiveness 8. Rwanda: Competitiveness by Quality Criteria, Track 2 9. El Salvador: Crop Competitiveness and Factor Intensities 10. Colombia: Crop Competitiveness by Region Evaluated via Tracks 1 and 2 Part Four: Concluding Remarks 11. Assessing Agricultural Competitiveness and its Determinants 12. Competitiveness in a Development Perspective
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (346 pages)
• Subjects: 338.1813; Agriculture -- Tropics; Tropical crops; Competition; Agricultural prices; Agriculture and state; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agricultural prices; Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Competition; Tropical crops; Tropics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128092224
• Related ISBNs: 012809222X
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