"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 …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …

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 …

At the close of the Second World War, when industrialized nations faced serious trade and financial imbalances …

BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - are a driving force behind an incipient transformation of the world … economy away from a US-dominated system toward a multipolar one in which developing countries will have a major say. It is …

This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of …

Depression a watershed period in the history of the American economy? This volume organizes twelve scholars' responses into four …, and the changing international economy. The central focus across the chapters is the well-known alternations to national … economy, while not omitting reference to the 1930s. The essays consider whether New Deal-style legislation continues to …