Food, Agriculture, And Development In The Pacific Basin

G. Edward Schuh is director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department at the World Bank, Washington, D.C.

• Foreword -- Introduction -- The Setting: Development, Food, and the International Economy -- Food and Agriculture in the Pacific Basin: An Overview -- Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Trade of Pacific Basin Countries -- International Trade and Self-Sufficiency: Contrasting Approaches to Food Security -- The Trade Approach to Food Security -- The SAM Approach to Food Security -- Case Studies in Domestic Policy and International Trade -- Food Policy and the Rice Trade in the Pacific Basin Region -- Agricultural-Industrial Interactions -- Agricultural Development and Policy in the People's Republic of China -- The International Migration of Labor -- The U.S.-Mexican Labor Market -- International Migration Within the Pacific Basin: Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences -- Technological and Research Capacity, Exchange, and Diffusion -- Resources for the Production of Agricultural Growth in the Pacific Basin Region -- Development of Agricultural Research Capacity: Some Perspectives from Asian Experience -- The Changing Institutional Nature of Technology Diffusion in Latin America: Policy Implications -- Conclusions -- Future Issues and Prospects for International Collaboration in the Pacific Basin