학위논문(석사)--Graduate School of International Studies Ajou University :국제통상학과,2017. 8
Alternative Abstract
Cross-border trade, as a principal factor of openness, can make an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth if the government adopts an open-door policy with foreign nations. However, Cameroon’s International trade, especially on agricultural products, has experienced a rapid decline over the years. Despite the stable political system, natural vast land, fertile soils and abundant labor in Cameroon that would have made her a modern global agricultural factory, to benefit from liberalization and globalization, the country's economy is still to rip the benefits from trading it agricultural products beyond its territorial confines. Important cash crop such as coffee has witnessed a decline over the years. I argue that opening up of new markets to integrate the existing old traditional market for the agricultural product with more foreign nations will open up new economic and market opportunities for Cameroon farms product.
Hence, in visualizing the agricultural situation in Cameroon and the Coffee sector, in particular, the research will try to examine and analyze the significant role that international trade can play in transforming and advancing agricultural productivity in Cameroon. To recognize how significant cross-border trade can display in shaping agricultural productivity in Cameroon would be analyzed from two main perspectives. The first is How opening up of new markets to integrate the existing old traditional market for agricultural product with more foreign nations will open up new economic and market opportunities for Cameroon farms product and the second is from a product perspective, where the product quality will need to increased to suit the market. Thus, for the government to formulate new policies that are aimed at targeting markets in measure coffee consuming countries such as South Korea with a total coffee consumption rate of 2.6kg per capita, Finland consumption rate of 9.6kg per capita (caffeineinformer.com). This could be a possible solution for transforming the agricultural sector in Cameroon.
