@article{Ganesh-Kumar:331409,
      recid = {331409},
      author = {Ganesh-Kumar, A. and Panda, Manoj and Burfisher, Mary E.},
      title = {Reforms in Indian Agro-processing and Agriculture Sectors  in the Context of Unilateral and Multilateral Trade  Agreements},
      address = {2005},
      pages = {40},
      year = {2005},
      note = {Presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Lübeck, Germany},
      abstract = {In this paper, we explore the potential impacts of trade  and investmentrelated policy reforms on India’s  agro-processing sector. We consider the direct effects of  policy reforms within the processing sector, and the  indirect effects on agro-processing of policy reforms in  the primary agriculture sector, in the Indian economy as a  whole, and in a multilateral framework. Towards this, we  develop a 22-sector, 16-region version of the GTAP  computable general equilibrium (CGE), global model for our  analysis. We find that trade and investment-related reforms  in agro-processing together can help the sector to grow.  Policy reforms that stimulate investment and help to  improve productivity will be crucial in offsetting the  contractionary pressures of trade reform alone on the  production of processed agricultural products. We also find  that indirect effects on agro-processing from India’s  policy reforms in other sectors are more important than  reforms in agroprocessing itself. Our findings argue for an  economy-wide perspective when targeting reform or  development of the agro-processing sector in India.  Compared to trade reform, comprehensive domestic reforms in  the agroprocessing and agriculture sectors relating to  investment are critical for achieving growth in  agro-processing. However, while the impacts of trade reform  per se seem to be small, trade reform - by ushering in a  higher degree of competition - could itself be a stimulus  for investment and productivity gains in India. At present,  unilateral reforms, especially those that improve  productivity in agro-processing and in primary agriculture,  are more important to agroprocessing than multilateral  trade reforms. Nevertheless, our findings also suggest the  importance of pursuing a domestic reform agenda within a  multilateral trading strategy that can accommodate the  expected economic growth of India and its future role in  global markets, with general equilibrium effects on  agro-processing.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331409},
}