Food Safety Issues in the Developing World by Laurian Unnevehr, Nancy Hirschhorn

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The World Bank has participated, along with other financing agencies and many client countries, in notable improvements to basic visible transport infrastructure, through a wide range of road, rail, port, and airport developments. Those investments will never yield their full potential returns in international trade performance, however, without parallel advances in systematically improving information generation and exchange, which underpins and controls every export and import movement. Such an effort has to begin with a clear understanding of the special characteristics of each country, and indeed, of each significant border entry and import point. This report offers an analytical approach to such a perception and reflects practical experience in a number of Bank missions and inquiries in a range of developing countries. The Audit examines and evaluates difficulties and obstacles presented to the cross-frontier movement of a routine consignment and its associated payment. The report is structured in the following manner: it presents an explanatory introduction; a set of questionnaires designed to support and structure personal interviews; and a note on the analysis and interpretation of the results of these interviews and suggestions for organizing practical remedial action.

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