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The Coffee Paradox. Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development.
Benoit Daviron
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Description for The Coffee Paradox. Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development.
Hardcover. The global coffee chain is currently characterized by a paradoxical coexistence of a 'coffee boom' in consuming countries and a 'coffee crisis' in producing countries. This book shows that the 'coffee paradox' exists because the coffee farmers sell and the coffee consumers buy embed increasingly different 'attributes'. Num Pages: 320 pages, Tables Figures Notes Bibliography Index. BIC Classification: KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to understanding commodity production and trade, as well as putting forward policy-relevant suggestions for ‘solving’ the commodity problem. Through the study of the global value chain for coffee, the authors recast the ‘development problem’ for countries relying on commodity ... Read more
Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to understanding commodity production and trade, as well as putting forward policy-relevant suggestions for ‘solving’ the commodity problem. Through the study of the global value chain for coffee, the authors recast the ‘development problem’ for countries relying on commodity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842774564
SKU
V9781842774564
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Ref
99-5
About Benoit Daviron
Stefano Ponte is senior researcher at the Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He is co-author (with Peter Gibbon) of 'Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy' (2004) and author of 'Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: How Policy Reforms Affect Rural Livelihoods in Africa' (2002). He has published extensively on commodity trade (especially coffee) and development, global value chains, the political ... Read more
Reviews for The Coffee Paradox. Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development.
'An important contribution to the literature on primary products and economic development.' Diego Pizano, National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia 'Daviron and Ponte have done a masterful job both of showing the limits to 'free' trade in agricultural products as well as providing some concrete proposals as to what must be done to promote greater equity. The story ... Read more