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would help to reduce the anti-agriculture, anti-export and anti-poor bias of current policies. The paper addresses such …
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heavily on agriculture for their livelihood. With this in mind, the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) proposed in …
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the various environmental and health-related issues confronting agriculture; details a comprehensive inventory of …
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policies drive the political economy of those policies.<b>Contents:</b> <ul> <li><b><i>Agriculture in an Integrating, Growing … but Distorted World Economy:</i></b> <ul> <li><b>Evolving Comparative Advantages:</b> <ul> <li>On Why Agriculture Declines … Economic Assessment of Quarantine Policies</li> <li>Agriculture's 'Multifunctionality' and the WTO</li> <li>Global Market …
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For more than a century, government policies have grossly distorted resource use in agriculture, both within and …
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A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdés (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...
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Most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade liberalizations will always improve global economic welfare provided globally optimal environmental, and other, policies are in place. But since the latter proviso is not met in practice, empirical studies of the environmental and resource depletion effects of...
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A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdes (1988, 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542620
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
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To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352223