The Caribbean Banana Trade
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The Caribbean Banana Trade
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Author : P. Clegg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-07-23
The Caribbean Banana Trade written by P. Clegg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-23 with Political Science categories.
The Caribbean banana trade is a controversial issue within international affairs. Peter Clegg investigates the complex political relationships between the traditional actors in the trade and how the issues of colonialism and globalization have shaped their interactions. He presents a detailed analysis of the development of the Caribbean banana trade and analyzes why the influence and importance of the traditional actors within the trade has diminished over the last thirty years.
Banana Wars
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Author : Gordon Myers
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books
Release Date : 2004-08
Banana Wars written by Gordon Myers and has been published by Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08 with Business & Economics categories.
In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. Banana Wars tells how the US government, answering the grievances of a single American corporation, forced the World Trade Organization to nullify a European Community commitment to protect small Caribbean banana growers.
Banana Wars
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Author : Steve Striffler
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-20
Banana Wars written by Steve Striffler and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States–Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, Banana Wars advances the growing body of scholarship focusing on export commodities from historical and social scientific perspectives. Bringing together the work of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and geographers, this collection reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages and, in so doing, created unprecedented potential for conflict throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. The frequently abusive conditions that banana workers experienced, the contributors point out, gave rise to one of Latin America’s earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers’ organizations and the power of U.S. capital, Latin American governments were inevitably affected by banana production. Banana Wars explores how these governments sometimes asserted their sovereignty over foreign fruit companies, but more often became their willing accomplices. With several essays focusing on the operations of the extraordinarily powerful United Fruit Company, the collection also examines the strategies and reactions of the American and European corporations seeking to profit from the sale of bananas grown by people of different cultures working in varied agricultural and economic environments. Contributors Philippe Bourgois Marcelo Bucheli Dario Euraque Cindy Forster Lawrence Grossman Mark Moberg Laura T. Raynolds Karla Slocum John Soluri Steve Striffler Allen Wells
Caribbean Bananas
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Author : Cleary Haines
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2010-03-01
Caribbean Bananas written by Cleary Haines and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of the erosion of trade preferences, with a focus on the export of Caribbean bananas to Europe. Estimates are made of the magnitude of implicit assistance provided over a period of three decades to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade preferences. The value of such assistance rose until the early 1990s, and has declined precipitously since then. Using vector autoregressive analysis, the paper finds that changes in the level of implicit assistance have had a considerable macroeconomic impact, especially on Caribbean real GDP growth.
Green Gold
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Author : Robert Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Green Gold written by Robert Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Business & Economics categories.
Looks at the history and future prospects for the banana industry in four Caribbean islands: Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent. It focuses on conditions for the small farmers and includes a study of Geest PLC, the company solely responsible for distributing Windward bananas in Britain.
Corporate Versus National Interest In Us Trade Policy
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Author : Richard L. Bernal
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-31
Corporate Versus National Interest In Us Trade Policy written by Richard L. Bernal and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-31 with Business & Economics categories.
This book provides a history of the WTO US-EU banana dispute through the lens of a major actor: the US-owned multinational firm, Chiquita Brands International. It documents and explains how Chiquita succeeded in having the Clinton administration pursue a trade policy of forcing the European Union to dismantle its preferential banana import regime for exports from the small English-speaking Caribbean (ESC) countries. The export of bananas was critically important to the social stability and economic viability of these countries and that was in the national security interest of the United States. The experience indicates that succeeding in this goal was detrimental to U.S. national security interest in the Caribbean.
Banana Wars
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Author : Timothy Edward Josling
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2003-03-12
Banana Wars written by Timothy Edward Josling and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-12 with Political Science categories.
In 2001, the EU and US announced the end of a trade dispute over the sale of bananas into the EU market. The allocation of import liscences had been found to violate World Trade Organization rules and to discriminate against suppliers from Latin America.This book examines the issues surrounding the dispute, in particular: the dependence of small Carribean economies on European Banana Markets; the role of the private sector in influencing public policy; the relation between the banana trade and the political tensions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy; the domestic political influence of banana companies in the US and the role of the WTO and its settlement of trade disputes.
Slipping Away
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Author : Mark Moberg
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2008
Slipping Away written by Mark Moberg and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
"During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. This volume examines the "banana wars" from the vantage point of St. Lucia's Mabouya Valley, whose recent, turbulent history reveals the impact of global forces. The author investigates how the contemporary structure of the island's banana industry originated in colonial policies to create a politically "stable" peasantry. followed by politicians' efforts to mobilize rural voters. These political strategies left farmers dependent on institutional and market protection, leaving them vulnerable to any alteration in trade policy. This history gave way to a new harsh reality, in which neoliberal policies privilege price and quantity over human rights and the environment. However. against these challenges, the author shows how the rural poor have responded in creative ways, including new social movements and Fair Trade farming, in order to negotiate a stronger position for themselves in a shifting global economy."--BOOK JACKET.
The International Banana Trade
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Author : Julian Roche
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1998-11-23
The International Banana Trade written by Julian Roche and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-23 with Business & Economics categories.
Covering every step from cultivation to consumption, The International Banana Trade presents comprehensive coverage of the conduct and structure of the international banana industry. Topics include: botanical origins and development global production history of the world trade in North America, Europe, and Asia production in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia production costs and prices The book also examines the workings of the growing production sector, trends in world production, and the trading of bananas.
Bananas
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Author : Richard Alfred Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Bananas written by Richard Alfred Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Banana trade categories.