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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
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with theoretical hypotheses that public support for agriculture is affected by the mass media. In particular, an increase … correlated with a reduction in agriculture taxation in poor countries and a reduction in the subsidization of agriculture in rich …
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This paper studies the effect of political regime transitions on public policy using a new data set on global agricultural and food policies over a 50-year period (including data from 74 developing and developed countries over the 1955?2005 period). The authors find evidence that democratization...
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-- Infrastructure -- Corruption -- Assistance to Agriculture Relative to Other Tradable Sectors -- Changes in Exchange Rates -- The … -- Historical Perspective on Agriculture and Policy Distortions -- The Communist Period -- The Transition Period, 1989 to 2000 … Transition -- Effects of Trade Liberalization -- New Trade Agreements -- Measuring Assistance to Agriculture -- Methodology and …
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donor funding for food security, and for agriculture and rural poverty. This has occurred while the shift from “low” to … can be explained by the presence of a “global urban bias” on agriculture and food policy in developing countries, and …
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The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080582
theoretical predictions, public support to agriculture is strongly affected by the structure of the mass media. In particular, a … taxation of agriculture in poor countries and reduces subsidization of agriculture in rich countries, ceteris paribus. The …
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