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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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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Nazneen - 2007

Bangladesh has substantially liberalized its trade and agricultural pricing policies since independence in 1971, removing most distortions to agricultural incentives by the mid-1990s. Although trade protection for some agricultural and industrial products has increased sharply since 1998, total...

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Light of Trade Policy : A Study on Pakistan

Ejaz, Neelam - 2017

Agriculture forms the backbone of Pakistan's economy. Despite the fact that the share of agriculture in the GDP has declined over the years, the sector continues to play an important role in the socio-economic structure of the country. About 60 percent of the population lives in rural areas of...

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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 India and Other South Asia

Gulati, Ashok - 2008

This chapter deals with the distortions to price incentives for agriculture that result from the trade, exchange rate and domestic policies in place in the four main South Asian countries, by summarizing and comparing the findings and themes of the more-detailed case studies on India, Pakistan,...

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