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Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments

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Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments by Lisa Gropp, Tom Hallam and Vince Manion was released on 17 July 2000. The intention of this paper is to examine the arguments for and against single-desk marketing, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each arrangement. Also see:

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Abbreviations and explanations, Overview

1 Introduction
1.1 What is single-desk marketing?
1.2 Background to the report
1.3 About this paper
1.4 Conduct of this study

2 Background
2.1 History
2.2 Current single-desk arrangements

3 Assessing the benefits
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Increasing export returns
3.3 Lower costs
3.4 Other benefits?
3.5 Conclusion

4 Assessing the costs
4.1 Implications for domestic users and consumers
4.2 Implications for agricultural producers

5 Pressure for change
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Institutional pressures
5.3 Market-driven pressures
5.4 Summary

6 Deregulation in practice
6.1 Deregulation in practice
6.2 Conclusion

A Discrimination in export markets

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