Course Outline :International Trade and Policy
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Date
2021-02-22
Authors
African Economic Research consortium
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AERC
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. Course Objectives
The course aims to:
• Acquaint the learners with the fundamental concepts underlying international trade.
• Give the learners an appreciation of the factors that make international trade to be an important policy agenda;
• Provide the learners with a firm foundation to develop basic analytical skills for diagnosing, describing and analyzing agricultural trade policy problems;
• Provide the learners with an appreciation of why nations should constantly monitor changes in the international market environment;
• Understand the role of economic integration. Familiarize the learners with the motives, types and institutional framework of regional integration schemes, and with international commodity agreements; and
• Expose the learners to global trade and agricultural policies of main institutions influencing agricultural trade involving developing countries.