The impact of food safety standards on international trade has already been addressed. Generally, economists try to …

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

understanding potential mechanisms through which Malagasy farmers may benefit from GlobalGap standards and assessing consequences on …

Increasing awareness of food safety issues has brought a boost in sanitary and phytosanitary regulations and standards … estimations suggest that, on average, quality standards and packaging and labeling issues are considered the most stringent. We …

Throughout recent year food quality standards have become a ubiquitous phenomenon that nationally and globally … review possible approaches to modeling standards existent in the literature, elaborate the reasoning behind them and discuss … specific situation, they may not be appropriate in others. That is they capture certain effects of standards only. With …

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity …, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export sectors in developing … countries. The successful adoption of standards by a broad number of producers can be seen as a condition to limit negative …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

Privately initiated food quality standards are currently important elements in the marketing of food and agricultural … farmers in developing countries. This study aims at analysing the adoption of two private food standards, BRC Technical Food …

optima of nutrition and health standards in food markets, and to identify under which cases “understandardization” or “over-standardization …This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive political and social …