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This compilation of data is prepared as a companion to the Bank's research project on distortions to agricultural incentives. Its purpose is to provide comparative basic economic and trade indicators for the countries involved as case studies in that project. The project is global in coverage,...
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as …
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The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural … world's population, farmers, agricultural output and total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85 … NRAs by showing two sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set for various regions of the world, the other for …
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countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins … the viewpoint of global trade or welfare restrictiveness. This analysis draws on the theory outlined in the previous …
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Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies, which reduce national and global economic welfare and...
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