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Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns : The Roles of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance. / Pushan Dutt.
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- Author/Creator:
- Dutt, Pushan.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Auctions.
- Campaign Contributions.
- Consumers.
- Cross-Country Data.
- Democracies.
- Developed Countries.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Development.
- Economics.
- Empirical Literature.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Gdp.
- Globalization.
- Income Inequality.
- Inequality.
- Legal System.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Political Economy.
- Political Institutions.
- Political Science.
- Poverty and Trade.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Productivity.
- Protectionism.
- Public & Municipal Finance.
- Public Finance.
- Trade Barriers.
- Trade Liberalization.
- Trade Policy.
- Trade Protection.
- Transparency.
- Unemployment.
- Wages.
- World Development Indicators.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Auctions.
- Campaign Contributions.
- Consumers.
- Cross-Country Data.
- Democracies.
- Developed Countries.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Development.
- Economics.
- Empirical Literature.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Gdp.
- Globalization.
- Income Inequality.
- Inequality.
- Legal System.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Political Economy.
- Political Institutions.
- Political Science.
- Poverty and Trade.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Productivity.
- Protectionism.
- Public & Municipal Finance.
- Public Finance.
- Trade Barriers.
- Trade Liberalization.
- Trade Policy.
- Trade Protection.
- Transparency.
- Unemployment.
- Wages.
- World Development Indicators.
- Other Title:
- Explaining Agricultural Distortion Patterns
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2009.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In this paper, the authors examine the political economy drivers of the variation in agricultural protection, both across countries and within countries over time. The paper starts by listing the key insights provided by both the theoretical and empirical literature on the political economy of trade policy formulation. The authors then set out a basic framework that allows us to put forth various testable hypotheses on the variation and evolution of agricultural protection. The authors find that both the political ideology of the government and the degree of income inequality are important determinants of agricultural protection. Thus, both the political-support-function approach as well as the median-voter approach can be used in explaining the variation in agricultural protection across countries and within countries over time. The results are consistent with the predictions of a model that assumes that labor is specialized and sector-specific in nature. Some aspects of protection also seem to be consistent with predictions of a lobbying model in that agricultural protection is negatively related to agricultural employment and positively related to agricultural productivity. Public finance aspects of protection also seem to be empirically important.
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