"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 …

(Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade … 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 …

multilateral trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact …"Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from … first of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …