Principal adjustment programs are reviewed unemployment insurance (UI) and related long-term programs for displaced workers, and trade adjustment assistance (TAA). None of these programs has had wide application in agriculture, although the current trade act contains a new program specifically...

This paper examines the structural adjustments induced as China moved from a planned economy that subsidized capital-intensive industry at the expense of agriculture to a nationally integrated market economy more fitting with China's underlying resource endowments. We argue that there were few...

Arguments for adjustment policies center on efficiency, equity and political economy considerations. The principal types of policies, targeted to individuals, firms or communities, are reviewed. A number of general issues relating to adjustment policies are identified.