Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty

Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty / Kym Anderson, John Cockburn, and Will Martin, editors.

For decades, the earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed because of a pro-urban, anti-agricultural bias in own-country policies and because governments in more well off countries are favoring their farmers by imposing import barriers and providing subsidies. These poli...

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Other Authors: Anderson, Kym, Cockburn, John, Martin, Will, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2010.
Series:World Bank e-Library.
Subjects:
Agricultural prices > Government policy.
Farm income > Developing countries.
Agricultural wages > Developing countries.
Poverty.
poverty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Agricultural prices > Government policy
Agricultural wages
Farm income
Poverty
Developing countries
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Introduction and summary
  • Global CGE approaches : Global welfare and poverty effects : linkage model results ; Global poverty and distributional impacts : the GIDD model ; Poverty impacts in 15 countries : the GTAP model
  • National CGE approaches : Asia ; China ; Indonesia ; Pakistan ; The Philippines ; Thailand
  • National CGE approaches : Africa ; Mozambique ; South Africa
  • National CGE approaches : Latin America ; Argentina ; Brazil ; Nicaragua.

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