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本科毕业论文外文翻译 外文题目：A Comparative Advantage Analysis of Kosovan Agriculture 出 处：Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 15, No. 3, September, 2003 作 者： John Lingard 原 文： A Comparative Advantage Analysis of Kosovan Agriculture Abstract Following the 1999 ethnic conflict in Kosova between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians,the UN has been promoting agricultural and rural recovery in a war-torn, divided and vandalised country. A pillar of this effort is to provide loans to farmers and agri-businesses to re-establish agricultural production so as to encourage moves towards reconciliation and a peaceful future. Early loans were advanced to uncompetitive sectors like wine which had no realistic chance of making any repayments. A study was carried out in 2002 to assess the competitiveness of the various agricultural sectors to rapidly inform future lending programmes. This article reports this study and its findings. Credit should only be advanced to sectors in which Kosova has potential competitiveness in terms of its trade parity prices. It is shown that, contrary to common belief, domestic wheat production is competitive (Table 3) and other sectors with potential to substitute for imports include the milk industry and potato production, but Kosova has few real opportunities to export to competitive, international markets. There is a shortage of information on agricultural production, costs and prices, food consumption patterns and international trade in agricultural and food products in Kosova. A statistical information system is being set up to improve availability, reliability and timeliness of agricultural statistics but up-to-date information to assess comparative advantages and international trade competitiveness is in short supply. Historically Kosova was the poorest province of Yugoslavia. In 1995 its GDP was less than $400 per capita, at which tim