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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia / Kym Anderson.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Kym.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Policy.
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Beef.
- Cocoa.
- Consumers.
- Crops.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Development.
- Exchange Rates.
- Expenditures.
- Financial Crisis.
- Gdp.
- Grains.
- Industrialization.
- International Food Policy Research Institute.
- Livestock.
- Low-Income Countries.
- Maize.
- Political Economy.
- Rice.
- Rural Development.
- Skilled Workers.
- Staple Foods.
- Sugar.
- Trade Barriers.
- Trade Liberalization.
- Trade Policy.
- Wheat.
- World Development Indicators.
- World Trade Organization.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Policy.
- Agricultural Sector Economics.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Beef.
- Cocoa.
- Consumers.
- Crops.
- Developing Countries.
- Economic Development.
- Exchange Rates.
- Expenditures.
- Financial Crisis.
- Gdp.
- Grains.
- Industrialization.
- International Food Policy Research Institute.
- Livestock.
- Low-Income Countries.
- Maize.
- Political Economy.
- Rice.
- Rural Development.
- Skilled Workers.
- Staple Foods.
- Sugar.
- Trade Barriers.
- Trade Liberalization.
- Trade Policy.
- Wheat.
- World Development Indicators.
- World Trade Organization.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2008.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past half-century. It then summarizes new estimates of the nominal rate of assistance (NRA) and the relative rate of assistance (RRA) to farmers delivered by national farm and nonfarm policies over the past several decades (depending on data availability), and of those policies' impacts on consumer prices of farm products. Both farmer assistance and consumer taxation is negative in periods where there is an anti-agricultural, pro-urban consumer bias in a country's policy regime. The final sections summarize what the author have learned and draw out implications of the findings, including for poverty and inequality and for possible future directions of policies affecting agricultural incentives in this part of Asia.
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