The book examines the impact of globalization on the least developed countries (LDCs). The far reaching changes that have taken place in the world economy in the past three decades, in trade relations between countries, and in the organization and institutions of the global trade system changed the balance of power between the ‘old’ and the emerging leading economic powers and the macroeconomic and the trade policies that both developed and developing countries have implemented.
The highli more...

One of the most notable changes in the world economy during the past three decades has been the diverging trends in the growth of the developing countries. Compared to East Asian countries that have integrated well into the global economy, those of Sub-Saharan Africa have remained stagnant and have become the world's least developed area. The policies and programmes of international organizations have failed to improve the situation while the global economy becomes dominated by trans-national co more...

Jagdish Bhagwati's In Defense of Globalization begins very defensively: opposition to globalization is the first thing he tackles. The first chapter is titled -- almost plaintively --: Anti-Globalization: Why ?, grouped in a first section worried about Coping with Anti-Globalization.
Bhagwati defends his approach by saying that without understanding why globalization has elicited such hostile reactions and:

then informed refutation of the fears and follies that animate the anti-glob more...

Only ten years now remain before the
2015 deadline by which world
leaders have pledged to reduce
hunger and extreme poverty by half and to
make substantial gains in education,
health, social equity, environmental
sustainability and international solidarity.
Without stronger commitment and more
rapid progress, most of those goals will not
be met.
If each of the developing regions
continues to reduce hunger at the current
pace, only Latin America and the Caribbean
will reach the Mille more...

People in the Caribbean have drastically altered their traditional diets in the last few decades
and have also adopted a more sedentary lifestyle. These observations are central to the
changing disease and health profile in the region.
That food consumption information is vital to planning the future of Caribbean health is no
longer in doubt. What is less clear is the strategy needed to transfer the findings from such
nutrition surveys into programs and policy action. While many manuals are more...

Worldwide, per capita availability of food is projected to increase around 7 percent between 1993 and 2020, from about 2,700 calories per person per day in 1993 to about 2,900 calories.3 Increases in average per capita food availability are expected in all major regions. China and East Asia are projected to experience the largest increase, and West Asia and North Africa the smallest. The projected average availability of about 2,300 calories per person per day in Sub-Saharan Africa is just barel more...

Au 1er Janvier 2008, les Accords de partenariat économique (APE), en cours
de négociation entre l’Union européenne (UE) et 77 pays d’Afrique, des
Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP), sont censés remplacer l’Accord de Cotonou, signé
au Bénin le 23 juin 2000. L’échéance est donc proche et la dérogation octroyée
par les membres de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) pour le volet
commercial de cet accord prend fin ce 31 Décembre, date à laquelle les signataires
devaien more...

Food and nutrition security for the country’s poor households is stable. Staple cereals are harvested between October and December in most of the country; current harvests are within normal ranges, and the maize harvests are slightly above average and above last year’s harvest. Food supply for subsistence producers is thus ensured through February or April, depending on local harvest times, since their reserves last approximately four months. Households’ dependency on agricultural producti more...

Since 2000, the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems
Network (FEWS NET) activity has adopted a livelihoods framework
for food security analysis. FEWS NET implements the livelihoods
approach flexibly, according to national strategies, partners, needs,
and resources. FEWS NET has strategically modified its capacity
building strategies and information products to strengthen and deliver
a livelihoods context for interpretation of food security and
vulnerability information.
The liveliho more...

Bien que la population de l'Inde ait augmenté de 424 millions d'habitants entre 1963 et 1993, les graves crises alimentaires des premières années 1960 ont fait place à des surplus de nourriture dans les années 1990. Et au cours de ces années l'Inde a développé un système de recherche agronomique parmi les plus étendus dans le monde. Près des trois quarts de cet accroissement de la productivité sont à mettre au compte de la recherche et de la vulgarisation agricole. Une grande partie more...