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 …

The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural … world's population, farmers, agricultural output and total Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85 … NRAs by showing two sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set for various regions of the world, the other for …

countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …