https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Food-Crisis-Is-Not-Over-Yet https://booksandideas.net/The-Food-Crisis-Is-Not-Over-Yet 2010-05-27T09:48:20Z text/html en Antoine Bouët & David Laborde Debucquet Economy development la suite droite agriculture Dossier - articles suivants food protectionism consumerism Le protectionnisme, un remède à la crise ? <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Although agricultural protectionism is a major obstacle to development in some Southern countries, it cannot be blamed for the food crisis of 2007-2008. Growing trade liberalisation in the agricultural sector had an ambiguous effect: it facilitated the development of countries with a comparative advantage in the sector, but it also led to a rise in agricultural prices and therefore harmed developing countries that are net importers of food products.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Benefits-and-costs-of-free-trade https://booksandideas.net/Benefits-and-costs-of-free-trade 2009-11-05T10:49:00Z text/html en Nina Pavcnik Economy development poverty la suite gauche economic growth trade Dossier - articles suivants free trade protectionism Le protectionnisme, un remède à la crise ? liberalization <p>Trade liberalization seems to have increased growth and income in developing countries over the past thirty years, through lower prices, firm-level efficiency gains and improved access to foreign inputs. However, aggregate gains from free trade are not necessarily equally distributed, so that trade liberalization has important costs for some people.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Antidumping-protection-hurts-good https://booksandideas.net/Antidumping-protection-hurts-good 2009-10-27T07:43:50Z text/html en Hylke Vandenbussche Economy la suite gauche companies competition trade Dossier - articles suivants protectionism Le protectionnisme, un remède à la crise ? <p>Antidumping measures have become an important form of commercial protection for countries, regulated by <span class="caps">WTO</span>. The effect of this kind of protection on firm-level productivity is highly heterogeneous. If it allows initially low-productivity domestic firms to restructure and increase their performance, it tends to hurt high-productivity domestic firms and exporters.</p>