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This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper explains why...
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The approach taken in this report reflects the view of the collaborating international organizations that price volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and long-term, with highly differentiated impacts on...
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again in some countries. Now is thus an opportune time to examine how policies affecting agriculture are evolving in this …
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south, are in contrast the two most populous countries in the world. Bhutan's land area is only 1 percent of India's and 0 … and 2012, and by 2017 it had achieved a further reduction, to 8.2 percent (NSB and World Bank 2017). National policy … more inclusive of all citizens. The agriculture sector, one of the five jewels in the Bhutanese economy, can play a key …
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This working paper summarizes annual estimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRAs), for each of the focus economies of Europe's transition economies, their key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics for the region's...
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019 presents indicators that measure the laws, regulations and bureaucratic …
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Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017, the third report in the series, offers insights into how laws and …
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … 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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To ensure the viability and competitiveness of agriculture and forestry and sustain rural livelihoods, it is critical … appropriate adaptive measures. The interactions between the weather-sensitive agriculture and forestry sectors, climate change …, the authors examine the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of ECA agriculture to climate change, and provide …
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(that is, family farmers). Setting up a comprehensive national agriculture risk management strategy (and subsequent plan and … shocks. In this regard, most stakeholders in Brazil agree that existing agriculture risk management programs in Brazil should …
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