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,...

In this anthology, editors Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla have gathered together some of the world's leading wine economists and economic historians to examine the development of national wine industries before and during the two waves of globalization. The empirically-based chapters analyse...

Until recently, most grape-based wine was consumed close to where it was produced, and mostly that was in Europe. The latest globalization wave has changed that forever. Now more than two-fifths of all wine consumed globally is produced in another country. Europe's dominance of global wine trade...