This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the...

This policy paper focuses on the incentive framework for Pakistani agriculture, with emphasis on trade and price policies. It first presents a synthesis of major trends in the performance of the sector and analyzes Pakistan's extraordinarily complex, opaque and discretionary, and...

The degree of competition and level of price transmission in food markets have important effects on the welfare level of consumers and producers. Thus, substantial attention has been paid to the analysis of price transmission in food markets. Traditionally, price transmission analyses have...

ABSTRACT In recent years the dairy sector in Panama has experienced mergers and consolidations that have led to increases in industry concentration, a decrease in the number of producers, and an increase in the scale of operations. Small dairy producers have expressed concerns about the...

This paper presents what is known about the role of agrarian reform and the subsequent counter reform in producing a successful dynamic evolution of Chilean agriculture.

Several developing countries have explicit food subsidies. By explicit we mean subsidies where there exist budgetary outlays by the government, while implicit subsidies are where supply price (i.e., farmers' prices) are also held down. The fiscal and the