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Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions?
Cadot, Olivier - 2009
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural distortions research project, the author estimate the effect of regionalism on the volatility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246933
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Moldova Trade Study : Note 3. Competitiveness in Moldova's Agricultural Sector
World Bank - 2016
The agriculture and agri-food sector is a substantial driver of Moldova's international trade and export … Moldova's agriculture sector, and synthesize relevant research on drivers and recommendations on improving agricultural …'s agriculture sector and its export competitiveness, synthesizes the findings, and presents recommendations. In order for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644576
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246894
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246897
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia
Anderson, Kym - 2008
agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246900
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246903
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246905
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model
Anderson, Kym - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246928
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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade : Evidence from Agriculture
Gawande, Kishore - 2009
in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246936
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Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions in Transition Countries of Asia and Europe
Rozelle, Scott - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246939