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Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions: The Literature to Date
Swinnen, Johan F.M. - 2009
The 1980s and first half of the 1990s were a very active period in the field of political economy of agricultural protection. While the past decade has witnessed a slowdown in this area, there have been very important developments on political economy in other parts of the economics profession....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014820
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Determinants of Farm Policies in the United States, 1996-2008
Orden, David; Blandford, David; Josling, Timothy E. - 2009
This paper focuses on the political economy of U.S. farm policy since the Uruguay Round trade negotiations concluded in 1994 and established the WTO. The continued ability of the powerful farm lobby in the United States to elicit support in the political arena is evident from this analysis. Yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014821
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Distribution of Agricultural NRAs across Countries and Products, 1955-84 and 1985-2007
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L. - 2009
The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, which is publicly available at www.worldbank.org/agdistortions, provides around 30,000 estimates of nominal rates of assistance to agricultural industries (NRAs) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014822
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Agricultural Distortion Patterns Since the 1950s: What Needs Explaining?
Anderson, Kym; Croser, Johanna L.; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2009
This paper summarizes a new database that sheds light on the impact of trade-related policy developments over the past half century on distortions to agricultural incentives and thus also to consumer prices for food in 75 countries spanning the per capita income spectrum. Price-support policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014823
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Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns : The Roles of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance
Dutt, Pushan; Mitra, Devashish - 2009
In this paper, we examine the political economy drivers of the variation in agricultural protection, both across countries and within countries over time. The paper starts by listing the key insights provided by both the theoretical and empirical literature on the political economy of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014824
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The Poverty Impacts of Global Commodity Trade Liberalization
Hertel, Thomas W.; Keeney, Roman - 2009
distribution of households by looking at stratum-specific poverty changes. Our findings indicate that the more favorable impacts of … agricultural reforms are driven by increased returns to peasant farm households’ labor as well as higher returns for unskilled wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068529
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model
Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto; van der … - 2009
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 wide Linkage Model, new estimates of agricultural price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068530
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Poverty in Thailand: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Warr, Peter G. - 2009
farm and non-farm households and this qualitative outcome is not dependent on the particular poverty line used in the … analysis. Liberalization in agricultural products alone raises poverty incidence among farm households, while reducing it … slightly among non-farm households. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068531
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Would Trade Liberalization Help the Poor of Brazil?
Filho, Ferreira; Souza, Joaquim Bento de; Horridge, Mark - 2009
for income distribution and poverty analysis by using a detailed representation of households. The model distinguishes 10 … 112,000 Brazilian households and 264,000 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire … sample of households and persons, before and after the policy shocks. The simulated trade liberalization scenario causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068532
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Political Economy of Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
Bates, Robert H.; Block, Steven A. - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/25/09.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068533