New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth

The opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries in the context of high-value markets for agricultural and food products, both in industrialized countries and domestically, are outlined. The critical question is how to facilitate the greater participation of developing countries and lo...

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Main Author:	Henson, Spencer
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9178

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spelling	okr-10986-91782021-04-23T14:02:44Z New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth Henson, Spencer World Development Report 2008 The opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries in the context of high-value markets for agricultural and food products, both in industrialized countries and domestically, are outlined. The critical question is how to facilitate the greater participation of developing countries and lower-income countries where agriculture plays a greater economic role in such markets, while enhancing the competitive position of those countries that have already established a market position. It is critical that developing countries adopt a strategic approach to identifying and exploiting high-value market opportunities for agricultural and food products. Low-income countries, which actually have the most to gain in terms of agricultural development, rural poverty alleviation and overall economic growth, will face the biggest challenges and also have the greatest resource constraints. 2012-06-26T15:40:29Z 2012-06-26T15:40:29Z 2006 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9178 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Latin America & Caribbean
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description	The opportunities and challenges faced by developing countries in the context of high-value markets for agricultural and food products, both in industrialized countries and domestically, are outlined. The critical question is how to facilitate the greater participation of developing countries and lower-income countries where agriculture plays a greater economic role in such markets, while enhancing the competitive position of those countries that have already established a market position. It is critical that developing countries adopt a strategic approach to identifying and exploiting high-value market opportunities for agricultural and food products. Low-income countries, which actually have the most to gain in terms of agricultural development, rural poverty alleviation and overall economic growth, will face the biggest challenges and also have the greatest resource constraints.
author	Henson, Spencer
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title	New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth
title_short	New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth
title_full	New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth
title_fullStr	New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth
title_full_unstemmed	New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth
title_sort	new markets and their supporting institutions: opportunities and constraints for demand growth
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New Markets and Their Supporting Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Demand Growth

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