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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Cameroon : Main report

Bamou, Ernest - 2007

Cameroon is among the more prosperous countries in Africa, thanks to relatively abundant agricultural land and offshore petroleum. These spurred an economic boom from unification of the country in 1972 until 1986, which was followed by a decade of decline from 1986 to 1995 and a limited recovery...

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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture

Laborde, David - 2020

To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. It uses a counterfactual global...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia and New Zealand

Anderson, Kym - 2008

In 1990, Australia and New Zealand were ranked around 25th and 37th in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita, having been the highest-income countries in the world one hundred years earlier. Those countries relatively poor economic growth performance over that long period contrasts...

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Annual Estimates of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in High-Income Countries

Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2008

This working paper summarizes the annual estimates, for each of the world's main high-income countries, of key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics for the group's estimates. It begins with tables for the countries of Western Europe,...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America and the Caribbean

Anderson, Kym - 2008

, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic … this average. By contrast, the per capita incomes of Argentina and Chile average just one-eighth below and that of Mexico …, and Mexico are a little less than one-third above the average …

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia

Anderson, Kym - 2008

This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan and North Africa

Anderson, Kym - 2008

This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policy developments as they affected the farm sector at the time of and in various stages after independence from colonial powers. The chapter...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in the United States and Canada

Gardner, Bruce - 2008

There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments before reporting new estimates of rates of assistance to their farmers and their...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Anderson, Kym - 2009

In a recent survey of European economic growth since 1950, Crafts and Toniolo (2008) conclude that incentive structures are a crucial explanator of comparative growth rates of the economies of east and west Europe. Pre-empting that, a 2006 report on trade performance and policies in Eastern...

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