"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 …

"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 …

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

"Agricultural protection, particularly in high income countries, have induced overproduction, thereby depressing world …. Land, labor, and any other input should not have to be in "agricultural use." "--World Bank web site …

The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain …, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world …'s poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. World Development Report 2008 seeks to …