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Edited by Kym Anderson, Alberto Valdes
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Trade and Development
English; Paperback; 440 pages; 6x9
Published October 2, 2008 by World Bank
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7513-6; SKU: 17513
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The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on
farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most
developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies,
while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and
subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic
growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although
progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy
biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain
between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the
agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries.
Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world
agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since
then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in
high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for
the world's developing countries. This volume is the second in a
series that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the
estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time—and
provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light
on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past
half-century.
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America
provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural
incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of South
America, plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together
these countries constitute about 80 percent of the region’s
population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. The title assesses
the successes and failures of the past and evaluates policy options for
the years ahead.
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