"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …

95 percent of the world economy. Such a comprehensive coverage exposes also the different degrees to which the key …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …

previous globalization waves. This unique database reveals that, even though Europe's vineyards were devastated by vine … diseases and the pest phylloxera from the 1860s, most "New World" countries remained net importers of wine until late in the … nineteenth century. Some of the world's leading wine economists and historians have contributed to and drawn on this database to …

. Barely one-tenth of the world's wine production was exported prior to the 1970s, even counting intra-European trade. The … latest wave of globalization has changed that forever. Now more than one-third of all wine consumed globally is produced in … World" producers. New consumers also have come onto the scene as incomes have grown, eating habits have changed and tastes …

countries or high-income countries as a group, or for the world as a whole. This paper seeks to fill this gap. The paper begins …