"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 …

Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to measure trade restrictiveness"--World Bank web site …

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

"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 …

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 …

"The binding of tariff rates and adoption of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization …-sanctioned safeguards and antidumping mechanisms provided the basis to remove a multitude of instruments of protection in the Latin American … pressures for protection in agencies with economy-wide accountabilities. The World Trade Organization's procedural requirements …