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This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the...
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For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have hampered farmers contributions to … time series of country level indexes, as well as Africa-wide aggregates. They also provide annual commodity market indexes …
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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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agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases … of Asia …
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poverty and inequality and for possible future directions of policies affecting agricultural incentives in Africa …
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primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of … (given that farm incomes are well below non-farm incomes in most developing countries and that agriculture there is intensive …
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report on trade performance and policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia included as one of its key recommendations the … again in some countries. Now is thus an opportune time to examine how policies affecting agriculture are evolving in this …
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Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
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For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
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responses to the earlier spike lowered the (negative) nominal assistance coefficient for agriculture by one-third between 1972 …
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