Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 The scope of this volume

1.3 Methodology for studying the impacts
      of different liberalisation scenarios

1.4 Papers in this volume and their
      main results

1.5 Concluding remarks

Chapter 2: Global Rice Trade Liberalisation:
Implications from Some Alternative Scenarios

2.1 Introduction

2.2 International rice market:
      Some stylised facts

2.3 Methodology

2.4 Simulation design

2.5 Simulation outcomes

2.6 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Poverty and Welfare Consequences
of Global Rice and Agricultural Trade
Liberalisation for Bangladesh

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Rice and the Bangladesh economy

3.3 Methodology of the study

3.4 Simulation results

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Assessing Macroeconomic and Welfare
Implications of Global Rice Trade Liberalisation for India

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Rice and the Indian economy

4.3 Basic modelling framework

4.4 Data

4.5 Simulation design and analysis

4.6 Decomposing the simulations

4.7 Poverty, welfare and inequality analysis

4.8 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Welfare and Poverty Implications of
Global Rice and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation
for Pakistan

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The rice sector and the Pakistan economy

5.3 The model structure and the database

5.4 Results

5.5 Summary and conclusions

Chapter 6: Impacts of Global Rice and Agricultural
Market Liberalisation for Sri Lanka

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Rice and the Sri Lankan economy

6.3 The structure of the model and the
      Social Accounting Matrix

6.4 Policy experiments

6.5 Results of the policy experiments:
      Short-run model

6.6 Results of the policy experiments:
      Long-run model

6.7 Conclusion