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South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
cordially invite you to a discussion of a recent publication:
From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad:
A Case Study of India?s Horticulture
Aaditya Mattoo, Deepak Mishra, and Ashish Narain
A new World Bank and OUP report examines the paradox that while
India is a large, low cost agricultural producer, its share in
global agriculture exports is minuscule. India produces nearly 11
per cent of all the world?s vegetables and 15 per cent of all
fruits, yet its share in global exports of vegetables is only 1.7
per cent and in fruits a meager 0.5 per cent. Based on an integrated
analysis of the sector?from farm to market?on the basis of primary
surveys of farmers, agents, and exporters across fifteen Indian
states, the report lists three major factors that are undermining
India?s potential for reaching supermarkets across the globe: (i)
The high delivery costs of getting agricultural produce from farm to
market; (ii) The existence of a huge gap between the health, safety,
and quality standards required abroad and the weak standards and
assessment mechanisms in India; and (iii) Pernicious forms of trade
protection and a system of special safeguards that is a source of
considerable uncertainty for successful exporters.
Tuesday, May 15 2007
3:00 - 4:30pm
World Bank J Building J1 - 050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
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Chair
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Praful Patel is the Vice President of South Asia Region in the World
Bank. He is a Ugandan national, who joined the Bank in January 1974
as a part of the Young Professional Program. Since then he has held
several positions and has worked on almost all regions of the World
Bank. He was promoted to his current position as Regional Vice
President, South Asia Region in 2003. Mr. Patel's academic
qualifications include Bachelors Degree in Architecture (1st Class
Hons) University of Nairobi, with a final year program at Royal
Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (1971); M.A.A.S. (Thesis on Urban
Settlement Design in Developing Countries), Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (1973) and General Manager Program - Harvard Business
School (1996).
Authors
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, DECRG
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group
of the World Bank. He is leading a project on international trade in
services, specializes in trade policy analysis and the operation of
the WTO, and is helping enhance policy-making and negotiating
capacity in developing countries. Prior to joining the Bank in
1999, Mr. Mattoo was Economic Counsellor at the Trade in Services
Division, WTO, Geneva. He also served as Economic Affairs Officer
in the Economic Research and Analysis and Trade Policy Review
Divisions of the WTO. Mr. Mattoo has lectured in economics at the
University of Sussex and was lector at Churchill College, Cambridge
University. Mr. Mattoo is an Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from King?s College, University of Cambridge, and an
M.Phil in Economics from St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.
Deepak Mishra
Senior Economist, South Asia PREM
Deepak Mishra is Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Unit in the South Asia region of the World Bank.
He has been leading a World Bank project to help the Government of
India to develop an informed strategy for reform and negotiations in
trade in services and agriculture. He also specializes in
sub-national issues?as the task manager of policy-based budget
support operations to Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and as one of the
leading authors of sub-national economic reports on Andhra Pradesh,
Punjab and Sindh (Pakistan). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked
for the Federal Reserve Board and Tata Motors in various capacities.
Mr. Mishra is an Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from
University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.A. in Economics from
Delhi School of Economics
Discussant
Will Martin
Lead Economist, DECRG
Will Martin specializes in analysis of trade policy reforms in
developing countries, with an emphasis on reforms related to the
WTO, and a regional focus on East and South Asia. He has written
extensively on policy reforms in agricultural trade, textiles and
clothing, and non-agricultural trade generally. Mr. Martin has a
particular interest in using detailed data on trade barriers to
build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers on
trade and welfare. Mr. Martin has published widely in journals, and
several books, including recent studies of global trade reform and
of China?s accession to the WTO.
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