What is the future for agriculture in Peru? Once the principal source of employment and income for much of the population, Peru’s agricultural sector has declined in importance as the national economy...
This study examines recent effective rates of protection across the Egyptian economy, using an ad valorem price wedge introduced by nontariff barriers and energy subsidies, and compares today's effective...
The primary objective of this report on the agricultural and rural development in Paraguay was to present the main results and conclusions of a diagnosis and policy options on the current status of agricultural...
This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the World Bank-defined region of Latin America and the Caribbean. Following...
This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical...
This paper presents estimates of indicators of direct and indirect intervention in agriculture by the Chilean government since 1960, drawing on the methodology in Anderson et al. (2008). To put those indicators...
This paper presents estimates of indicators of direct and indirect intervention in agriculture by the Chilean government since 1960, drawing on the methodology in Anderson et al. (2008). To put those indicators...
This study is part of a global research project seeking to understand the extent and effects of the reduction in policy biases, and the reasons behind the reforms in Asia, Africa, and Europe's transition...
Beyond the City evaluates the contribution of rural development and policies to growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental degradation in the rest of the economy, as well as in the rural space. This...
本文考查了有关工业化国家和发展中国家的农业和宏观经济之间相互作用的文献,并根据作者的观点确定了此类文献最重要的贡献和不足。 根据整体经济观点,本文首先讨论了经济文献和二战以来许多发展中国家的发展战略对出口和农业的偏见。此后,本文分析了宏观经济环境是怎样影响农业价格动机的。具体来说,本文研究了有关产业保护、汇率、利率政策和其它财政政策怎样才能对农业的经济动机发生比其它行业更强大的影响,并确定了这方面最有意义的文献和在研究有关问题时可采用的其它方法。其后,它考查了外来冲击(如外国的贸易条件)是怎样对实际汇率发生影响的,考查的重点是“荷兰病”现象与农业。之后,本文考查了利率对农业动机的影响,并认为这是文献中令人意外地忽略了的内容。...
This report examines the impact of marketing and trade policies on production incentives in Ukrainian agriculture during 1994 and 1995. Seven agricultural activities with enormous export potential are...
Since approximately 1990, most countries in Latin America have embarked on a multilateral process of trade liberalization for agricultural and non-agricultural products, effectively ending four decades...
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a Surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
The core of this study is an in-depth analysis of the economic effects of agricultural economic interventions in eighteen developing countries during the period from 1960 to 1985. The theoretical approach...
This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Asia. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's three...
This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Latin America. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's...
Past studies have identified nutrition exclusively with nutrient intake. A better definition of nutrition would critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications...
This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Latin America. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's...