reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn … from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting …, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales …

input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic … reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. In other commodity … markets, intervention is by and large notional and without much practical involvement. The rolling back of the public sector …

absence or inadequacy of risk-mitigating institutions and markets, and the need to protect the world's poorest communities … expensive, and that reduced intervention can promote competition, help develop alternative institutions, and release funds for …

and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers … were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets …