"For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

the 5 percent generated by the most commonly used global model (GTAP) and reported in the paper's final section. "--World …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy (projected to 2015), their results … food importers or are enjoying preferential access to agricultural markets of high-income countries. "--World Bank web site …

"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from … multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact … first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …

welfare and its distributional effects, particularly for the poor in developing countries"--World Bank web site …