spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a … at the regional level. After taking into account the reduction in Madagascar's monopoly power on the world vanilla market …,000 individuals out of poverty. "--World Bank web site …

reforms"--World Bank web site …

Although diet structure and activity throughout the developing world have shifted drastically over the past several …

"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 …

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 …