An Economic Study of Characteristics of the International-and National Rice Markets and Policies

1995、1996和1997财政年度由日本政府教育、科学和文化部的一笔研究赠款（赠款编号07660290）支助的研究项目“国际和国家稻米市场和政策特点的经济研究“的最后报告已经出版。本卷收录了本人在本研究项目的研究成果中发表的论文，以及在其他研究项目的研究中发表的但与本研究项目的研究主题相关的论文。本出版物将向日本和外国研究人员介绍国际和国内稻米市场的特点，如国际稻米贸易市场的薄弱、不确定性和不可靠性，以及亚洲国家稻米政策中实现和维持稻米自给自足和稳定国内稻米价格和供应的强烈趋势。我认为，国际稻米市场的这些特点和亚洲国家稻米政策的这些特点意味着，有必要对最近国际农业贸易谈判的主导思想-自由贸易的好处-进行相当大的修改。亚洲国家的稻米产量约占世界总产量的90%，也是世界饥饿人口的集中地。

The final report of the research project, "An Economic Study of the Characteristics of the International and National Rice Markets and Policies, " supported by a research grant of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the Japanese government during fiscal years of 1995,1996 and 1997 (Grant Number 07660290) was published. My English Papers published from the research results of the current research project and published from the research of other research projects but related to the research topic of the current research project are compiled in this volume. This publication will inform to the Japanese and foreign researchers such characteristics of the international and national rice markets as thinness, uncertainty and unreliability of the international rice trade market and the strong tendency in the rice policies of Asian countries for attaining and maintaining rice self-sufficiency and stabilization of domestic rice price and supply. I believe that these characteristics of international rice market and of rice policies of Asian countries, who produce about 90% of the world total rice production and where the world starved concentrate, imply the need for considerable modification of the idea of the benefit of free trade that has oriented the recent international agricultural trade negotiations.