International trade and the neoliberal diet in Central America and the Dominican Republic: Bringing social inequality to the center of analysis

Werner, Marion; Contreras, Pavel Isa; Mui, Yeeli; Stokes-Ramos, Hannah

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112516

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“…The framework developed by Amin and others [ 13 ] has been widely used to study other systems under the influence of uneven development. Successful examples include examinations of ecologically unequal exchange and deforestation [ 61 ] but also applications to the study of health problems [ 62 ] such as maternal and infant mortality [ [63] , [64] , [65] ] and obesity [ 66 , 67 ], as well as infectious diseases like HIV-AIDS [ 31 ], malaria [ 68 ], tuberculosis [ 69 ] and Ebola [ 70 ]. According to uneven development and related theories [ 12 , 13 ], peripheral states have a general tendency to have an economic profile and global entanglements that negatively influence their abilities to mobilize resources necessary to avoid or mitigate social problems [ 71 ], such as the health crisis that has emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

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Friberg

Hurtado

et al. 2022

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Mesoamerica and the Caribbean form a region comprised by middle- and low-income countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Here, we ask whether the spread of COVID-19, measured using early epidemic growth rates ( r ), reproduction numbers ( R t ), accumulated cases, and deaths, is influenced by how the ‘used territories’ across the regions have been differently shaped by uneven development, human movement and trade differences. Using an econometric approach, we found that trade openness increased cases and deaths, while the number of international cities connected at main airports increased r , cases and deaths. Similarly, increases in concentration of imports, a sign of uneven development, coincided with increases in early epidemic growth and deaths. These results suggest that countries whose used territory was defined by a less uneven development were less likely to show exacerbated COVID-19 patterns of transmission. Health outcomes were worst in more trade-dependent countries, even after controlling for the impact of transmission prevention and mitigation policies, highlighting how structural effects of economic integration in used territories were associated with the initial COVID-19 spread in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.

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Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Chaves

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Hurtado

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Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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“…After excluding duplicates and ineligible articles, we included 21 studies (figure 1; table). 8,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] Figure 2 shows the results from our quality assessment (appendix pp [9][10][11][12]. Most studies controlled for relevant confounders (15 of 21 studies), and all used appropriate data analysis methods (21 of 21 studies).…”

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Reassessing the health impacts of trade and investment agreements: a systematic review of quantitative studies, 2016–20

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Garde

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The Lancet Planetary Health

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“…These coalitions have emerged through the recent history of Vietnam, as on the one hand an emerging economy looking to engage economically with powerful neighbours and allies, and on the other hand a country with relatively strong focus on social policy such as health (Baulch, 2016). In Vietnam, we see diets changing in line with the nutrition transition (Harris et al, 2020), and conceptually connect this with shifts in the food and policy environment through trade agreements that have been observed elsewhere (Werner et al, 2019). These changes in the nutrition profile of the country were however either not recognised or not prioritised by trade actors in this study, and where they were, they were often felt to be best tackled through routes other than trade given the primacy of economic goals.…”

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“…Modern food environments have both positive and negative implications for diets, with more fresh and nutrient-rich foods available to those who can afford and access them; but more ultraprocessed and nutrient-poor foods available too, and often at lower prices per calorie (Global Panel on Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition, 2016; Hirvonen et al, 2019). There is growing consensus among food systems and public health researchers that global trade structures for food are a key driver of nutrition and health changes (Werner et al, 2019), and are a 'missed opportunity' for policy engagement that could be part of the solution to the more detrimental aspects of the nutrition transition (Global Panel on Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition, 2020).…”

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Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam

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Global trade has shaped food systems over centuries, but modern trade agreements are hastening these changes and making them more complex, with implications for public health and nutrition transition. This study aimed to understand the impact of the 2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on the policy space for public health nutrition in Vietnam. We conducted comparative document review and key informant interviews, and our analysis drew on a framework of policy space and the theory of advocacy coalitions. We identified 10 CPTPP sections with potential public health nutrition implications; and 50 Vietnamese policies relevant to nutrition having one or more tensions with one or more CPTPP sections. A majority of policy tensions were in sections of the CPTPP relating to technical barriers to trade and government procurement; most tensions related to protecting policy-making from vested interests. Different groups of policy actors hold different beliefs and interests on these issues, and therefore promote different framings and policy approaches. We identified two advocacy coalitions working very separately on issues affecting nutrition policy space: a trade coalition holding the policy position that free trade improves nutrition by default; and a nutrition coalition holding the policy position that nutrition should be explicitly considered in trade policy. The policy space for nutrition in Vietnam has important potential constraints through written policy, and the trade and nutrition coalitions will need to interact more regularly and constructively in order to foresee where these tensions will arise in practice, and create plans for their mitigation. This study adds to global evidence of free trade agreement impacts on nutrition policy space, and we extend previous work by explaining these actor groupings in the policy space through the theory of advocacy coalitions.

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International trade and the neoliberal diet in Central America and the Dominican Republic: Bringing social inequality to the center of analysis

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

Reassessing the health impacts of trade and investment agreements: a systematic review of quantitative studies, 2016–20

Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam

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