"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 …

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 summarizes a series of new economy-wide global and national empirical studies that focus on the net effects of … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …