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Measuring Distortions To Agricultural Incentives, Revisited / Anderson, Kym
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications")- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Kym
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agribusiness.
- Agricultural Incentives.
- Agricultural markets.
- Agricultural policy.
- Agriculture.
- Currencies and Exchange Rates.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Export.
- Farm.
- Farm products.
- Farmers.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Import tariffs.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Markets and Market Access.
- Private Sector Development.
- Quantitative restrictions.
- Local Subjects:
- Agribusiness.
- Agricultural Incentives.
- Agricultural markets.
- Agricultural policy.
- Agriculture.
- Currencies and Exchange Rates.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- Emerging Markets.
- Export.
- Farm.
- Farm products.
- Farmers.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Import tariffs.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Markets and Market Access.
- Private Sector Development.
- Quantitative restrictions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. Especially in developing countries, non-agricultural policies indirectly impact agricultural and food markets. Empirical analysis aimed at monitoring distortions to agricultural incentives thus need to examine both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies and quantitative restrictions, plus domestic taxes or subsidies on farm outputs or inputs and consumer subsidies for food staples. This paper addresses the practical methodological issues that need to be faced when attempting to undertake such a measurement task in developing countries. The approach is illustrated in two ways: by presenting estimates of nominal and relative rates of assistance to farmers in China for the period 1981 to 2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide computable general equilibrium model of the effects on agricultural versus non-agricultural markets of the project's measured distortions globally as of 2004.
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