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, a Ugandan national, is one of the senior corporate leaders of the
World Bank. He is currently the Regional Vice President of South Asia. Mr.
Patel joined the World Bank in 1974 through the Young Professional Program after
completing his higher education from the University of Nairobi in Kenya and
later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. In a career
spanning 29 years, Mr. Patel has provided strategic leadership in managerial and
corporate positions in various parts of the Bank taking forward the
institution?s mission of poverty alleviation in regions as varied as Africa,
East Asia, Latin America and Northern Africa and the Middle East. In the
process, he has covered different sectors including urban, infrastructure,
private sector, financial sector and macro-economic management. He has also
taken on senior management oversight of complex Bank-supported initiatives in
countries confronting major macro-economic shocks, post-conflict countries, and
countries involving international cross-boundary undertakings, and piloted in
Southern Africa the Bank?s increasing shift to country dialogue based on
knowledge management and support of local capacity.
Authors
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, DECRG
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World
Bank. He has been leading a World Bank project to help the Government of India
develop a strategy for international trade reform and negotiations on
agriculture and services. He is also 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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